Well, since you said earlier in the thread that: >What's weird is that another developer that uses >PuTTY and cygwin ssh has no trouble whatsoever from > his WinXP PC before or after our upgrade. But it >is clear that my connectivity issues are tied to the >OpenSolaris 2008.11 >upgrade. Totally frustrating.
So obviously SSH on the OpenSolaris machine is working properly if the other developer can connect to it from Windows XP. Since he can connect and you can't, I think it's fair to say that the problem must be with something on your Windows XP machine and not with anything related to the Solaris machine. Pretty much the only problems I've had with SSH on OpenSolaris is that the newer versions have an extremely high level of security / paranoia (almost an OpenBSD level of security / paranoia) about the authentication of the SSH keys. For example, one time I ssh-ed in to a Red Hat machine to shut it down remotely, then I took it out of the rack to re-install the operating system, then I tried to SSH back into it while it was sitting on my desk plugged in to a switch on the LAN and Solaris SSH had a panic attack because the Red Hat machine with the same IP as before now had a different SSH key. Solaris kept telling me that someone might be trying to do a "man in the middle" attack against me and wouldn't allow me to connect even though there was no man in the middle (just my computer connected to a switch connected to the server). I remember that I had to solve the problem by using vi to edit some file and get rid of the old (now defunct) SSH key and then have it accept the new SSH key, but yeah, OpenSolaris doesn't mess around when it comes to security, especially with SSH key related issues. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org
