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 root@hostname 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) ---------------------------------------------- Dr. Martyn D. Wheeler Department of Chemistry University of Leicester University Road Leicester, LE1 7RH, UK. Tel (office): +44 (0)116 252 3985 Tel (lab): +44 (0)116 252 2115 Fax: +44 (0)116 252 3789 Email: martyn.wheeler@le.ac.uk http://www.le.ac.uk/chemistry/staff/mdw10.html