ssh through a bastion machine works on someone else's desktop but not my own

Posted by Terrence Brannon on Server Fault See other posts from Server Fault or by Terrence Brannon
Published on 2010-04-09T21:30:32Z Indexed on 2010/04/09 21:33 UTC
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I have to ssh into a bastion (jump) server in order to get to the final server.

On the jump server, my .ssh/config says:

Host *
 ForwardAgent yes

My co-worker uses PuTTy and Pageant. When I use a putty shell to connect from his desktop to the final server as root via the jump server, it works fine.

At my desk I cannot connect to the final server, only the jump server.

However, if I go to his desk, and successfully log into the final server via the jump server, I can then go back to my desk and also do so.... but after a certain amount of time, my shells revert to the original behavior of not connecting to final server via jump server.

The entire transcript of ssh -v -v -v final_server is here

The relevant part to me is when the public key is offered but then it says 'we did not send a packet':

debug1: Offering public key: /home/CORP/t.brannon/.ssh/id_dsa
debug3: send_pubkey_test
debug2: we sent a publickey packet, wait for reply
debug1: Authentications that can continue: publickey,password
debug2: we did not send a packet, disable method
debug3: authmethod_lookup password

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