Thanks, I suspect that it is something in our environment that is causing this. Specifically, how do I use the strace tool in this context? Can I substitute the 'ssh' command with 'strace ssh' command?
Thanks, Matt On Mar 15 09:50, Matt Berney wrote: > Over time, we continue to experience intermittent sshd authentication problems in > our environment. Every so often (~ 1.5% of the time, but enough to cause our > automated tests to fail), admin privileges are not granted. Perhaps there is some > setting in the /etc/sshd_config file that we need to change. > [...] > #!/bin/bash > > USER=$1 > HOST=$2 > > while [ true ] ; do > > echo -e "\n *** $USER on $HOST *** \n" > ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] id > > sleep 10 > done I tried the above loop several thousand times now. I'm not able to reproduce the effect. I'm getting always admin privs. It would perhaps help to get an strace of a failing sshd. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Developer <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Red Hat, Inc. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple <http://cygwin.com/ml/> Problem reports: <http://cygwin.com/problems.html> Documentation: <http://cygwin.com/docs.html> FAQ: <http://cygwin.com/faq/> -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/