From: Wheeler, Dr M.D. (mdw10leicester.ac.uk)
Date: Mon May 10 2004 - 07:48:40 CDT

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Dear All,
I have encountered some rather odd behaviour on our network. I get an odd message when is execute a remote command on the node that is connected to the outside world from one of the other nodes.

On the node connected to the outside I have placed in the authorized_keys2 file the key generated on one of the other nodes on the local network.
 
no-port-forwarding,no-X11-forwarding,no-agent-forwarding,no-pty,command="echo Success" ssh-dss AA.......

when I type ssh roothostname from one of the nodes the following lines are seen,
Success
       What manual page do you want?
                                    Connection to hostname closed.

The first line is fine, however I do not understand what the second line is about...? If I do the same between nodes that are not connected to the outside i just get
Success
       Connection to hostname closed.

which is fine...

Does anyone know what might be causing this behaviour? Has my security been compromised?

I am running SuSE 9.0 (64 bit version)

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