Dear Maintainer,

I had a hard time debugging a disturbing and seemingly intermittent
failure while using the monkeysphere . When trying to connect to a small
subset of the servers I usually connect to, I immediately got a
connection refused error from ssh, before I even started connecting to
the remote server.

When disabling the monkeysphere-proxycommand in ~/.ssh/config I was able
to successfully connect to these hosts.

After much hand-wringing and debugging, I tried calling:

MONKEYSPHERE_LOG_LEVEL=DEBUG /usr/bin/monkeysphere ssh-proxycommand <host>

With working hosts, we get an SSH welcome message. With the non-working
hosts I received no feedback and exit code 1.

I finally tracked it down:

ssh-keygen -F <host> -f /home/jamie/.ssh/known_hosts

Which generated a useful error about my known_hosts file having a line
that was too long (somehow I had inserted garbage into my known_hosts
file which prevent ssh-keygen from working properly).

So, the small subset of hosts that were failing were the ones that
weren't in my OpenPGP keyring (which makes sense ... mostly this was
affecting my access to the non-public virtual guests on my laptop.).

I *think* the proper fixes are:

 * Check the error code when calling ssh-keygen and return a reasonable
   error to the user if it fails.
 * Add more feedback to the ssh-proxycommand subcommand when
   MONKEYSPHERE_LOG_LEVEL=DEBUG

jamie (sjj)

Dear submitter,

as the package monkeysphere has just been removed from the Debian archive
unstable we hereby close the associated bug reports.  We are sorry
that we couldn't deal with your issue properly.

For details on the removal, please see https://bugs.debian.org/1085868

The version of this package that was in Debian prior to this removal
can still be found using https://snapshot.debian.org/.

Please note that the changes have been done on the master archive and
will not propagate to any mirrors until the next dinstall run at the
earliest.

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