From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Oct 26 16:30:55 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 984B537B401 for ; Sat, 26 Oct 2002 16:30:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from serv1.wallnet.com (server1.wallnet.com [208.225.162.122]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 45A2843E4A for ; Sat, 26 Oct 2002 16:30:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from timothyk@serv1.wallnet.com) Received: (from root@localhost) by serv1.wallnet.com (8.11.5/8.11.5) id g9QNUng34699 for questions@freebsd.org; Sat, 26 Oct 2002 19:30:49 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from timothyk@serv1.wallnet.com) Received: from localhost (timothyk@localhost) by serv1.wallnet.com (8.11.5/8.11.5av) with ESMTP id g9QNUlj34691 for ; Sat, 26 Oct 2002 19:30:48 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from timothyk@serv1.wallnet.com) X-Authentication-Warning: serv1.wallnet.com: timothyk owned process doing -bs Date: Sat, 26 Oct 2002 19:30:47 -0400 (EDT) From: Tim Kellers To: Subject: OT: ssh quandry Message-ID: <20021026192016.D34209-100000@serv1.wallnet.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS perl-11 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG First, I apologize for asking a ssh question that has it's troubles based in Linux, here. A friend of mine was trying to get HostBased Authentication working on a Linux box (Linux 2.4.18-3). To cut to the chase he deleted the password method of connecting (he was trying to get a passwordless connection going and his fingers betrayed him) and now has no way to get into the box --both ssh -1(i and t) and ssh2 are hosed. He is near me in NJ and the box is in a closet in Arizona. All my stuff is FreeBSD and I've never had trouble getting passwordless ssh going but, apparently, Linux is either more difficult or unforgiving or both. I know this is a better question for a Linux list, but hey, I'm used to you guys. Private replies, public replies, thoughts and ideas appreciated. Tim Kellers CPE/NJIT To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message