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From: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com>
Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2006 14:31:25 -0700
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Subject: Re: problems ssh'ing debug1: An invalid name was supplied (OSX
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On Oct 6, 2006, at 2:26 PM, Noah wrote:
> any clues why ssh is hanging before a prompt is provided from the  
> server side. this prompt stalling behavior is only happening when I  
> am coming from my OSX ssh client. Any clues on this? I have never  
> see this betwe.

Looks like your SSH keypair has been mangled:

% cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa
-----BEGIN RSA PRIVATE KEY-----
[ ...should contain base-64 encoded data... ]
-----END RSA PRIVATE KEY-----

If you don't have a valid keypair there in id_rsa and id_rsa.pub, use  
ssh-keygen to make a new one.

-- 
-Chuck