login to remote system using ssh fails

[Bill Davidsen]

Geoffrey Leach wrote:
> This is Fedora 11, openssh-clients-5.2p1-2.fc11.i586
> Same problem happened once before on a Fedora 10 installation; I'm 
> ashamed to say that I did not note the solution.
> 
> The remote system is F10; same as before.
> 
> Two systems are connected via wireless. Connection is good. Previously, 
> ssh -l user sys prompted for password and connected. Today (after 
> wakeup from hibernate), ssh complained about the remote system's key. 
> This has happened before and was always resolvable by removing the old 
> entry in .ssh/known_hosts and trying again.
> 
> The problem is that now, after entering user's pw, I find that I'm 
> logged in to the originating system.
> 
> Shutdown, power off/on, reboot does not affect the problem.
> 
> Nothing from dmesg.
> 
> Any help would be appreciated.
> 
Sounds like it might be DNS, you are logging into yourself (why host ID 
changed), and not the other system.

BTW: ignoring "host ID changed" in ssh is a really bad idea from a security 
standpoint. Now even when you do connect to the right machine you will have a 
key mismatch. You *do* save the known_hosts and authorized_keys file when they 
change, right?

-- 
Bill Davidsen <davidsen at tmr.com>
   "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from
the machinations of the wicked."  - from Slashdot