[rescue] We are stumped... (SSH between Powerbook & Solaris box)

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Wed Dec 26 17:43:04 CST 2001


I've always used "ssh -l nick hostname.domainname.extension".
	Mocl  

On Wed, 26 Dec 2001, Ken Hansen wrote:

> On Wednesday, December 26, 2001, at 05:44 PM, Kurt Huhn wrote:
> 
> >> Odd, this got me in:
> >>
> >> ssh -v ken at basenji.com
> >>
> >
> > What does the "-v" flag tell your ssh to do?  On Solaris, Irix, and
> > Linux, -v is just verbose output to stdout.  It seems strange to me that
> > "-l" gave you an error - usually that flag specifies a user...
> 
> The -v option is "verbose", I just wanted to see what was happening. 
> That connection attempt went through. Subsequent attempts were also 
> successful.
> 
> -l (minus ell) was used like this "ssh -l ken at basenji.com" adn I got a 
> dump of the command line options...
> 
> I don't think the -v fixed anything, I suspect is was simply 
> coincidence, but I don't know what changed...
> 
> Ken
> 
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