On 2/5/07, wenfei yu <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> This follows "need more work to make remote login possible after
> installation of SL ".
>
> I was actually trying to access a SL 4 machine from a Mac OS X (Tiger) using
> SSH. Besides  what I reported in the previous e-mails, here I give you more
> information which might be related to Mac OS X.  It is not clear to me
> whether this is related to the "temporary SSH problems under Mac OS X and
> Linux" (http://security.fnal.gov/cookbook/SSHonMacOSX.html)
>
> The output is like this. There are several such reports on the internet but
> none gives me an answer. Is this only a problem with Mac OS X ? If I use
> another PC linux machine will it be fine ?
>
> Many thanks,
>
> Wen
>
> % ssh -v -l myusername 192.168.x.x
> OpenSSH_3.8.1p1, OpenSSL 0.9.7g 11 Apr 2005
> debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh_config
> debug1: Connecting to 192.168.x.x [192.168.x.x] port 22.
> debug1: Connection established.
> debug1: identity file /Users/wenfei/.ssh/identity type -1
> debug1: identity file /Users/wenfei/.ssh/id_rsa type -1
> debug1: identity file /Users/wenfei/.ssh/id_dsa type -1
> debug1: Remote protocol version 1.99, remote software version OpenSSH_3.9p1
> debug1: match: OpenSSH_3.9p1 pat OpenSSH*
> debug1: Enabling compatibility mode for protocol 2.0
> debug1: Local version string SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_3.8.1p1
> debug1: An invalid name was supplied
> Cannot determine realm for numeric host address
>
> debug1: An invalid name was supplied
> A parameter was malformed
> Validation error
>
> debug1: An invalid name was supplied
> Cannot determine realm for numeric host address
> \

I can't duplicate with my MacOS X.4 box here.. try the following:

ssh -v [log in to unmask]

which shell are you using on the mac when doing htis?

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