Hello there, I have two machines running F7. Until last week ssh between them was easy due to a id_dsa file in .ssh Today, I can ssh in or out of both f7 boxes to a SLC3 (~RHEL3) but I cannot connect from one to other. Firstly, a new authentication method "gssapi-with-mic" is tried, but this generates errors, and is very slow to move on: debug3: Trying to reverse map address XXX.YYY.ZZZ.UUU. debug1: Unspecified GSS failure. Minor code may provide more information Unknown code krb5 7 I think I would be happy to disable this if I knew how. But then publickey is tried and fails: debug1: Next authentication method: publickey debug1: Offering public key: /home/murray/.ssh/id_dsa debug3: send_pubkey_test debug2: we sent a publickey packet, wait for reply Connection closed by XXX.REMOTE.YYY I fixed this (using a random google) by changing /etc/hosts from: 127.0.0.1 me.domain me localhost.localdomain localhost to 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost So now ssh works again. But there is stern warning in /etc/hosts about editing this line. Have I done something bad? Thanks, Bill -- __________________________________________________________ Bill Murray w.j.murray@xxxxxxxx (44)-1235-446256