[tech] problem with SSH logins from minerva

[Alastair Irvine]

Hello, all.  After I reconnected a few network cables (including the
uplink) to the SynOptics hub in the corridor, I discovered that I couldn't
SSH to morwong or mussel from minerva.  I was using NiftyTelnet 1.1 SSH r3
(which I use fine from home, with an SSH-1 RSA private key).  I tried DES,
3-DES and Blowfish; could it be that the SSH servers were silently
disallowing passowrd-based authentication?

PS -- munchwabbit does not appear to be doing key-based X authentication

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