On Fri, 9 Feb 2007 08:19:36 -0500 Greg Wooledge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> No, it's finding the FQDN from /etc/resolv.conf & /etc/hosts. That's not >> the problem. "ssh foobar" does get to the foobar host. > >That doesn't matter. ssh(1) matches what you actually TYPE, not what >the hostname resolves to in DNS. Example:
Oh. Mea culpa. You're right. I got it to work now (with "trusted" because the app is KDE :-( ). Guess I trusted the config files too much. I mean, the sample file said "Host *", so I figured if it took wildcards it could do full name resolution w/ nicknames. Apologies to all I blew-off about using "ssh -X ...". Paul Rogers ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.xprt.net/~pgrogers/ http://www.geocities.com/paulgrogers/ Rogers' Second Law: "Everything you do communicates." (I do not personally endorse any additions after this line. TANSTAAFL :-)
