Always receive error code 255 using passwordless SSH - it works though

[mcclunyboy]

Hi,

I am trying to set up passworldess login - I found this forum the most useful so hope someone can help.

I am trying to automate ssh to use send commands from a Red Hat el5.2 server to a solaris 9 server (I did get it working from solaris 10-9).

I have ran ssh-keygen -t rsa and then the ssh-copy-id and i can login passwordless via ssh. N HURRAH

Unfortunately when I use my scripts to automate the commands I ALWAYS receive an "Error Code - 255" - the command is successfully sent.

Red Hat uses ssh 4.3

Really need a quick answer for this please...

[atreyu]

can you post a snippet of your code, and also whatever errors/messages are spewed to STDOUT, besides error code - 255 (which I don't recognize).

also, try ssh -v when debugging ssh.

[mcclunyboy]

ssh -v results below (I have actually tried -vv and -vvv and can't see anything out of the ordinary). There are no unusual messages in /var/log/messages or /var/log/secure (didn't know if there should be.....)

Everything points to it working fine, I can see the results of the command working successfully on the destination server - however even so I recieve this error 255 - is there a way to supress errors (not wise, I know but maybe necessary)??

Command exited with Error Status = 255
OpenSSH_4.3p2, OpenSSL 0.9.8b 04 May 2006
debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh/ssh_config
debug1: Applying options for *
debug1: Connecting to Ip address [ip address] port 22.
debug1: Connection established.
debug1: identity file /home/user/.ssh/identity type -1
debug1: identity file /home/user/.ssh/id_rsa type 1
debug1: identity file /home/user/.ssh/id_dsa type -1
debug1: loaded 3 keys
debug1: Remote protocol version 2.0, remote software version Sun_SSH_1.0.1
debug1: match: Sun_SSH_1.0.1 pat Sun_SSH_1.0*
debug1: Enabling compatibility mode for protocol 2.0
debug1: Local version string SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_4.3
debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEXINIT sent
debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEXINIT received
debug1: kex: server->client aes128-cbc hmac-md5 none
debug1: kex: client->server aes128-cbc hmac-md5 none
debug1: sending SSH2_MSG_KEXDH_INIT
debug1: expecting SSH2_MSG_KEXDH_REPLY
debug1: Host '192.168.129.2' is known and matches the RSA host key.
debug1: Found key in /home/user/.ssh/known_hosts:1
debug1: ssh_rsa_verify: signature correct
debug1: SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS sent
debug1: expecting SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS
debug1: SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS received
debug1: SSH2_MSG_SERVICE_REQUEST sent
debug1: SSH2_MSG_SERVICE_ACCEPT received
debug1: Authentications that can continue: publickey,password
debug1: Next authentication method: publickey
debug1: Trying private key: /home/user/.ssh/identity
debug1: Offering public key: /home/user/.ssh/id_rsa
debug1: Server accepts key: pkalg ssh-rsa blen 277
debug1: read PEM private key done: type RSA
debug1: Authentication succeeded (publickey).
debug1: channel 0: new [client-session]
debug1: Entering interactive session.
debug1: Sending environment.
debug1: Sending env LANG = en_US.UTF-8
debug1: Sending command: mkdir thisfilenew
debug1: channel 0: free: client-session, nchannels 1
debug1: fd 0 clearing O_NONBLOCK
debug1: fd 1 clearing O_NONBLOCK
debug1: Transferred: stdin 0, stdout 0, stderr 0 bytes in 11.1 seconds
debug1: Bytes per second: stdin 0.0, stdout 0.0, stderr 0.0
debug1: Exit status -1

[atreyu]

ssh -v results below (I have actually tried -vv and -vvv and can't see anything out of the ordinary). There are no unusual messages in /var/log/messages or /var/log/secure (didn't know if there should be.....)

Everything points to it working fine, I can see the results of the command working successfully on the destination server - however even so I recieve this error 255 - is there a way to supress errors (not wise, I know but maybe necessary)??

Perhaps you need to start the SSH server on the other side in debug mode, in order to troubleshoot further?

Anyway, for your client side, you can try this to disable the message maybe. Create (or append to) the file ~/.ssh/config:

host <SSH_SERVERNAME_OR_IPADDR>
  LOGLEVEL Quiet