Good morning everyone;

I'm having an interesting problem with XAUTHORITY that I'm hoping someone
here has seen before. A few users I'm admining for are trying to log into
a Linux (2.2.19) machine with NIS mounted accounts and NFS mounted home
directories. Their SSH sessions work fine, but their XAUTHORITY
environment variable is not updated to include /tmp/<magic-cookiefile>.

They get the same symptom logging in from Linux, Solaris or IRIX machines
with varying versions of SSH on the remote end.

However, it's puzzling because:

  * They have the same setup on other machines (NIS and NFS), and it works
fine. Including other Linux machines.

  * If you try this with a user who is NOT using NIS and NFS, it works
fine.

  * If you manually set your environment variable to the magic cookie,
forwarding works fine.

  * There is nothing in any of the global .rc files, or their own, which
manually manipulate the XAUTHORITY.

The version of SSH we're using is OpenSSH_2.9p1, SSH protocols 1.5/2.0

Has anyone else seen this before?

Regards;
Matt Linton
UNIX Systems Administrator
Asani Solutions, LLC.

On Thu, 25 Oct 2001, Blackstone, Keith [IT] wrote:

> Has anyone ever encountered this problem on Solaris 2.6 before?
> 
> # /export/opt/openssh/bin/ssh-keygen -t dsa
> Couldn't get password entry for current user (userid): Permission denied
> 
> I have successfully done this command on at least 20 machines which are all
> supposed to be identical at the core.  This one machine is giving me
> difficulties.  Any help would be appreciated.
> 
> Keith Blackstone
> Salomon Smith Barney
> Global Information Security Technology
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>  
> 
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