Ah, it's starting to make sense now. You're trying to connect without a password to a kerberos enabled ssh server. The openssh package in slackware does not include kerberos, so you can't do that, the error you get is telling that. So, what you meant by "I installed openssh from sourcery" is that there is an openssh-krb5 package in sourcery and that's what you installed. If you want to use it, you'll need to reinstall it, since you say you removed it. If you do, you'll find ssh binaries that are built with kerberos in /usr/kerberos/bin. You should probably use the ssh.krb5 binary in there to connect.
But I have to ask. Why not use ssh keys to connect without a password?
[SOLVED] ssh doesn't work
Re: ssh doesn't work
Hi,
Thanks for your help. I reinstalled openssh-krb5 and used ssh.krb5 and I am able to connect with out the password.
Our organization doesn't encourage the usage of ssh keys, which is one of the main reason why I am not using the private/public key pair. Morever, if I append my public key to any server's authorized_keys file, I get a warning email from Unix team every minute which fills up my inbox pretty soon. I had setup rules in thunderbird to get around it, but finally I decided to use the kerberized login as I don't have to transfer my public key info to each and every server that I have to connect.
Thanks,
Balaji.
Thanks for your help. I reinstalled openssh-krb5 and used ssh.krb5 and I am able to connect with out the password.
Our organization doesn't encourage the usage of ssh keys, which is one of the main reason why I am not using the private/public key pair. Morever, if I append my public key to any server's authorized_keys file, I get a warning email from Unix team every minute which fills up my inbox pretty soon. I had setup rules in thunderbird to get around it, but finally I decided to use the kerberized login as I don't have to transfer my public key info to each and every server that I have to connect.
Thanks,
Balaji.