OpenSSH 3.6.1p1 and AIX 4.3

From: Mick Ohrberg (mick_ohrberg@output.net)
Date: 04/23/03 

From: mick_ohrberg@output.net (Mick Ohrberg)
Date: 23 Apr 2003 10:06:52 -0700

I have downloaded a precompiled bff-file of openssh 3.6.1, and
everything works well, except one thing. A regular user cannot SSH out
from the box. Root can ssh out, and key-based authentication to the
server works fine, but a 'regular' user cannot ssh to another box.

Another peculiarity is that for the users, the known_hosts file is
never created. Permissions on ~/.ssh are good, so it's not a problem
with that.

SSH binaries are in /usr/local/bin and /usr/local/sbin.

I have played with the StrictHostKeyChecking keyword in ssh_config,
and changed it from 'ask' to 'yes' to 'no'.

With 'ask', I get "Host key verification failed.", and I'm never asked
to add the remote host key to my known_hosts file.
With 'yes' I get "No RSA host key is known for 172.16.6.140 and you
have requested strict checking. Host key verification failed." which
makes sense.
With 'no' I get "Permission denied, please try again. Permission
denied, please try again. Permission denied
(publickey,password,keyboard-interactive)."

Can anybody shed any light on this matter?

The downloaded bff is off of Darren Tucker's page;
http://www.zip.com.au/~dtucker/openssh/openssh-3.6.1p1-bff.tar.gz

Thanks very much in advance!

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