Re: can't open display : (on Linux rlogin to SGI)

clusardi2k_at_aol.com
Date: 05/02/05 

Date: 2 May 2005 06:28:03 -0700

Tony 'Nicoya' Mantler wrote:
> In article <1114796567.594875.168860@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com>,
> clusardi2k@aol.com wrote:
>
> : (5)I take the id rsa.pub file on SGI and put it on Linux, but I
rename
> : the file to ~user/.ssh/authroized keys.
>
> Double-check the permissions of the .ssh folder, its contents, your
home
> directory, and all directories above it. If SSH finds that the
directories are
> group or world writeable it'll ignore the keys and force you to enter
your
> password.
>
> This is so someone else can't drop their key into your
authorized_keys file and
> ssh into the system as you.
>
>
> Cheers - Tony 'Nicoya' Mantler :)
>

This worked for me, only one-way.

On Onyx it worked:

ssh clusardi@linux_box date
...

But, going the other way it didn't appear to work.

On Linux it failed:

ssh clusardi@onyx date
ssh: connect to host onyx port 22 : Connection refused

Christopher Lusardi

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