On Sat, Feb 22, 2003 at 03:36:30PM +0200, Willie Viljoen wrote: > On Saturday 22 February 2003 15:01, Cliff Sarginson wrote: > > Hello, > > Behind my firewall I am trying to set up password-free ssh between the > > various systems. I have come across a curious problem. From a BSD > > machine I can set it up so that FreeBSD can ssh into any of the Linux > > machines is fine, but the other way around, trying to get into the > > FreeBSD machines from Linux, causes sshd on FreebSD to return > > > > Feb 22 13:46:57 willow sshd[926]: fatal: monitor_read: unsupported > > request: 24 > > > > This happens with 2 different varieties of Linux, so it is not an > > artefact of just one system. The configurations look the same at both > > ends as far as I can see. > > > > I have "achieved this by generating an rsa key, and putting the public > > one into the authorized_keys2 file as appropriate. > > > > Any suggestions ? > > Try and make sure that your Linux systems always use protocol version 2. > FreeBSD uses this protocol by default, but most Linux distributions default > to version 1 for compatibility reasons. > > Public key authentication only appeared in version 2, so machines trying to > use version 1 will not be able to use it properly. > > The quickest way to achieve this is to force remote systems to use version 2 > by adding this in /etc/ssh/sshd_config on the FreeBSD system (it should > already be there for new versions): > > Protocol 2 > > Note that a setting of 2,1 will not work as it will still server protocol 1 > if clients request it first. >
Ok, will give that a whirl later. Thanks ! -- Regards Cliff Sarginson The Netherlands [ This mail has been checked as virus-free ] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
