[ILUG] ssh wierdness

[conor at discuskeeping.com]

Hi all, strange one here:

1. I have copied id_rsa.pub across to accounts (oracle) on two nodes
2. Testing ssh machine1 or ssh machine2 both allow access with rsa keys
bi-directionally
3. ssh machine1 date
works, no password needed.
4. ssh machine2 date
prompts for the passwd.

Any idea why?

The only difference I can tell is :

[root at machine2 ~]# ps -ef | grep -i ssh-agent
oracle   30200     1  0 Feb23 ?        00:00:00 ssh-agent
root     12106  6136  0 13:06 pts/1    00:00:00 grep -i ssh-agent

[root at machine1 ~]# ps -ef | grep -i ssh-agent
root     10188     1  0 Feb21 ?        00:00:00 /usr/bin/ssh-agent -s
root     17188 14080  0 13:03 pts/1    00:00:00 grep -i ssh-agent

I changed this to be root running ssh-agent, yet the issue remains.

Help me obi-wan, your my only hope.
Conor.