[NTLUG:Discuss] Help with ssh

[Greg Edwards]

Have you tried without the -X option?

Greg Edwards
http://greg.edwards-tx.us

On 1/29/2015 12:47 AM, Fred wrote:
> Another issue has cropped up.
>
> My main puter has several users. I usually log into
> my personal acct and ssh -X to the others as needed
> for various activities: mail, invoices, etc It may not
> be the optimum solution but it has worked well for
> a few years now. The usual access to those accounts
> is:
> fred -> ssh -X -p2279 username at localhost
>
> then input the password and go. I am now in the
> process of moving everything over to another
> puter and need to look at these accounts with
> the new box. When I substitute the main's IP address
> in place of "localhost" in the above example,
> the process starts and then hangs. The title
> bar of the console window is labeled with the
> username and IP address of the old system, so
> it gets that far along. Here is the output of the -v option:
>
>   fred at new:~> ssh -v -X -p 2279 username at 192.168.1.102
> OpenSSH_6.2p2, OpenSSL 1.0.1j 15 Oct 2014
> debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh/ssh_config
> debug1: /etc/ssh/ssh_config line 20: Applying options for *
> debug1: Connecting to 192.168.1.102 [192.168.1.102] port 2279.
> debug1: Connection established.
> debug1: identity file /home/fred/.ssh/id_rsa type -1
> debug1: identity file /home/fred/.ssh/id_rsa-cert type -1
> debug1: identity file /home/fred/.ssh/id_dsa type -1
> debug1: identity file /home/fred/.ssh/id_dsa-cert type -1
> debug1: identity file /home/fred/.ssh/id_ecdsa type -1
> debug1: identity file /home/fred/.ssh/id_ecdsa-cert type -1
> debug1: Enabling compatibility mode for protocol 2.0
> debug1: Local version string SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_6.2
> And then it hangs....
>
> Yes, both machines are on the same LAN. Obviously
> I am missing something very basic but it eludes me.
> Any helpful pointers would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> Fred
>
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