Hi, I have read many of the threads regarding Permision Denied errors, but none seemed to apply or make a difference. I have two laptops in ad-hoc mode which I am trying to use SSH with. They both have the same kernel, same version of SSH installed, and are both using default configuration. SSH from laptop A to laptop B is great, but for some reason B cannot connect to A! Even if I delete the known hosts file and all the other files in /etc/ssh (including the config file, sending everything to default for sure...), I still recieve the error.


Is there some other verification file I can reset, or option I can change to make things easier? I do not need security whatsoever, these laptops have nothing valuable on them and this is really an ironic inconvenience since SSH is so secure.

Thanks

what distros are involved? are you blocked by default in a hosts.deny file on laptop A? any firewalls on either machine, or a router?

i never would think the ssh settings would revert to default if you delete the config file, but i'll take your word for it. better to have a config file though, i would think, esp. since you know it's not working without one anyway.

Uhh, yes, good point. Right now I am reinstalling SSH because I want a fresh install and... I was wrong, just assumed that it would function on defaults without a config file. Anyways something I deleted in /etc/ssh killed it. I'll try to check out the note off of the guide on here I just noticed to:

Speedy reply, btw

And they are on Slackware, 10.0



Ok, with everything fresh (again) On LapA -> LapB, connection is still sound. Since this was a fresh boot, I recieved the "Authentication of host unknown; accept RSA key?" garble. On LapB -> LapA, I recieved "Host verification failed". What other file is locking my connection? I deleted everything in /root/ssh before the reinstall too, and there is no hosts.deny on either. Geh?


Running the debug, the error says:

"read_passphrase: can't open /dev/tty: is a directory"

Whoa, so I just checked, and on LapB, /dev/tty had 6 sub directories, /s, /s01, /s02... What are these? No matter, I cleared them and linked to /dev/tty1.

Problem Solved. grr