Yes, the accounts has been tested on different boxes. As to your second
point about the dns. I tried two different computers using the same
gateway, xp and os x. The worked like like a charm. I'll probably just end
up, upgrading ver of ssh and see how it goes.
> user logging in remotely must have a valid shell to be able to do
> anything after they connect. If for example, as I normally do, give
> users invalid shells such as /bin/false...they could use ssh to connect,
> authenticate and get disconnected because they don't have a valid shell.
> Are you sure you have a valid shell?
>
> Also - sometimes the initial connection will take some time as the sshd
> server will attempt to verify your hostname via dns
>
> You shouldn't have to do any recompiling.
>
> Craig
>
