A possible solution for a hanging ssh login

Feb 13, '06 05:47:00AM

Contributed by: serres

If you cannot login any longer from your Mac user's shell account to a remote server with ssh, and ssh -vvv loginname@server is hanging at the following line...

debug3: Trying to reverse map address 192.168.73.23.
..then look cd into /tmp/.KerberosLogin-xxx-yyyyy, where xxx is your Unix user ID (typically 501 for the first user created on the machine), and yyyy is a random number. Once there, remove the file named KLLCCache.lock. Try again, and bingo. Hurray!

[robg adds: On my machine, these directories also have some text following their names -- (inited,gui,tty,local), for instance.]

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