Salut, David Barker-Plummer, On Thu, 3 Jul 2008 21:40:59 -0700, David Barker-Plummer wrote: > A connection is attempted every five minutes. Sometimes a > connection is reliably established for several hours, E.g. twelve > times an hour for six hours = 72 successful connections, say, and > then the ssh connection will fail with this error message: Go away, > you don't exist. Once it fails in this way, all subsequent > connection attempts also fail. The problem is that at the point in time where you get the error message, the machine running the SSH _client_ cannot resolve your user name using getpwuid. This happens e.g. when you are authenticated against an LDAP server which times out or whatever (nss_ldap tends to be just as broken as nss' users, which usually fail to make a difference between "No such user" and "Error retrieving tokens" errors. Noone would ever use anything other than a /etc/passwd file, right?). Please note that we're not talking about the server you want to ssh to. It's the client. Tonnerre -- SyGroup GmbH Tonnerre Lombard Solutions Systematiques Tel:+41 61 333 80 33 Güterstrasse 86 Fax:+41 61 383 14 67 4053 Basel Web:www.sygroup.ch tonnerre.lombard@xxxxxxxxxx
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