[SATLUG] SSH Forwarding Problem

[John Pappas]

On 5/14/07, Sean Carolan <scarolan at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 5/14/07, John Pappas <j at jvpappas.net> wrote:
> > Hey Sean,
> > The problem resolved?  I am running similar setups for SSH, so let me
> know
> > the status and we can work it out.
> >
> > There problem is with your keys (host or personal) that is not allowing
> the
> > key-based authentication to continue.  Once we get past that, the port
> > reflection should be reasonably straight forward to fix.
>
> I honestly have not messed with this for the past few days.  We've
> just been SSH-ing to box1 then to box2.  The weird thing is the
> problem went away on it's own for all but two of our systems.  I have
> a feeling the network admins might have changed some things.  ..


Yeah they tend to "help" a lot :)  They may have redistributed keymat or
changed the sshd.conf.  They key (hehe pun) to this whole configuration is
cleanly configured ~/.ssh directories with strict permissions, matching
keymat, and proper authorized_keys and known_hosts.  If that ssh chain is
broken at any link, the whole port forwarding chain breaks.

John