Re: SSH login to any remote machine fails

stealthsurfer_at_gmail.com
Date: 02/15/05 

Date: 15 Feb 2005 08:55:05 -0800

Willi Bald wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I got a serious SSH-Problem on my Redhat 9 client (OpenSSH_3.5p1, SSH

> protocols 1.5/2.0):
>
> when I try to connect (as root) to a remote server using
>
> # ssh servername
> or
> # ssh -l root servername
>
> I get the following message: Host key verification failed.
> I've tried to connect to this servers from a other client, and
> everything works.
>
> SSH-login to my client works fine too.
>
> Any suggestions!?
>
> Thank you
> Willi

I just had a similar problem on a series of SUNs. Root was able to ssh
just fine but any normal user would just receive the Host key
verification failed error. I finally traced this down to a permissions
problem with /dev/tty. On my systems /dev/tty is a link to
/devices/pseudo/sy@0:tty. This was set to 660. It must be 666 to allow
normal users to ssh. Check the permissions on it and see if it helps.

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