unusal error messages ...

From: Trevor Mckeown (tmckeown_at_gmail.com)
Date: 07/15/05

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    I am having a bit of a problem with a computer system I am using here.
     It's one master computer with three slaves. There are two network
    shares that are mapped accross all nodes, /home/someuser/ and
    /usr/local. I have the following packages installed on redhat 9.

    openssh-askpass-gnome-3.5p1-6
    openssh-clients-3.5p1-6
    openssh-3.5p1-6
    openssh-server-3.5p1-6
    openssh-askpass-3.5p1-6

    Anyways when ever I ssh into any of the nodes with a
    normal user I get the error

    get_socket_ipaddr: getnameinfo 8 failed
    userauth_hostbased: cannot get local ipaddr/name

    then a password challenge

    I enter in the password and I get
    then I get the error

    Could not chdir to home directory /home/someuers: No such file or
    directory /usr/X11R6/bin/xauth: error in locking authority file
    /home/someuser/.Xauthority

    But when I try the root user I get no password challenge and only the
    first error

    get_socket_ipaddr: getnameinfo 8 failed
    userauth_hostbased: cannot get local ipaddr/name

    Both of them log in however. Basically the errors are causing some
    problems with many of my automated scripts

    I am using Host based Authentication

    Any ideas or comments? I've been reading about ssh all day but other
    then that all I know how to do is to connect to it and get a basic
    daemon running. Thanks

    Trevor

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