[PLUG] Enabling bi-directional ssh

[Larry Brigman]

I would first try doing ssh to each host locally and see if that works.

On Nov 8, 2016 3:36 PM, "Rich Shepard" <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com> wrote:

> On Tue, 8 Nov 2016, Paul Mullen wrote:
>
> > Manually running ssh-agent will start up another process, but it won't
> > export any environment variables.  You have to do that yourself.
>
>    True.
>
> > (This is unnecesssary if an ssh-agent process was already started
> > automatically at login, either via an X display manager or
> > ~/.bash_profile.)
>
>    And why it's not automatically started at login, from ~/.bash_profile,
> is
> another issue needing resolution.
>
> > Since you don't have any ssh environment variables set on your typha
> > login, kill any existing ssh-agent processes that belong to you (`killall
> > ssh-agent`) and start a fresh process. This time, run `eval
> $(ssh-agent)`.
> > It should only output a single line, "Agent pid nnnn". Now, you should
> > have environment variables set. Verify with `env | grep SSH`.
>
>    Done.
>
>    Still cannot connect since ssh tells me there's no identity file
> id_ed25519 which does exist. Quite puzzling ... to me, at least.
>
> Thanks, Paul,
>
> Rich
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