what is gssapi good for ( was: SSH problem )

[Michael Ben-Nes]

Hi,

What is gssapi good for?
Read about it in wikipedia but I am not aware of apps that use it.
Basically I disable it in new servers to get faster response.


Bye,
Miki
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2010/1/27 Hetz Ben Hamo <hetzbh at gmail.com>

> Hi,
>
> In the last updated my Fedora with the official updates and now  it seems
> that passphraseless connections to RHEL/CentOS 5.X are not working any more.
>
> When I try to ssh from my Fedora machine to my CentOS machine, it gives
> errors:
>
> debug1: expecting SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS
> debug1: SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS received
> debug1: SSH2_MSG_SERVICE_REQUEST sent
> debug1: SSH2_MSG_SERVICE_ACCEPT received
> debug1: Authentications that can continue:
> publickey,gssapi-with-mic,password
> debug1: Next authentication method: gssapi-with-mic
> debug1: Unspecified GSS failure.  Minor code may provide more information
> Credentials cache file '/tmp/krb5cc_500' not found
>
> debug1: Unspecified GSS failure.  Minor code may provide more information
> Credentials cache file '/tmp/krb5cc_500' not found
>
> debug1: Unspecified GSS failure.  Minor code may provide more information
>
>
> debug1: Next authentication method: publickey
> debug1: Trying private key: /home/hetz/.ssh/identity
> debug1: Offering public key: /home/hetz/.ssh/id_rsa
> debug1: Authentications that can continue:
> publickey,gssapi-with-mic,password
> debug1: Trying private key: /home/hetz/.ssh/id_dsa
> debug1: Next authentication method: password
> hetz at X.X.X.X's password:
>
> Anyone knows something about this?
>
> Thanks,
> Hetz
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