OpenSSH problem on Solaris 8

Marc syn_uw at NOSPAM_hotmail.com
Wed May 22 09:56:48 EDT 2002


Jacques A. Vidrine wrote:


> Is `hostname.domain.com' the same as the output of the hostname
> command?


yes hostname is the same output except that with hostname i don't get 
the domainname.

 
> If I recall correctly, Simon's modifications indirectly use
> gethostname() to determine the server principal name to use.  This is
> different than what most Kerberos network applications do (they
> typically use getsockname()).  It matters if your machine has multiple
> interfaces, or if for any other reason your hostname is different than
> the name you give the client.
> 
> i.e.
> 
>    client% ssh foo
> 
>    server% hostname
>    bar
> 
> foo and bar must match.
> 
> I sent Simon some patches some time ago to (a) allow one to specify
> how to get the server name in the server (sshd) and (b) allow one to
> specify a different name to use at the client (ssh) to handle such
> cases, as well as tunneling and things of that nature where the
> network name does not match the server name.  I can dig them up if you
> like.


If you think that can help for my problem I would be please to try yes.

Regards




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