[ILUG] ssh errors - invalid name

[Niall O Broin]

I was looking at the use of forced commands with ssh and was having 
some problems (which have been resolved - simple typo) and while 
debugging I of course ran ssh -v and saw this in the output:

debug1: Enabling compatibility mode for protocol 2.0
debug1: Local version string SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_3.6.1p1+CAN-2004-0175
debug1: An invalid name was supplied
Configuration file does not specify default realm

debug1: An invalid name was supplied
A parameter was malformed
Validation error

debug1: An invalid name was supplied
Configuration file does not specify default realm

debug1: An invalid name was supplied
A parameter was malformed
Validation error

debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEXINIT sent
debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEXINIT received


What are the error reports starting "debug1: An invalid name was 
supplied" about? I have googled, but I only turn up sections of other 
people's problems where they have included some -v output, and these 
errors aren't specifically addressed. If I crank ssh up to -vvv I get 
one more line of output before the first occurence of   debug1: An 
invalid name was supplied   which was

debug3: Trying to reverse map address 192.168.1.100.

but I don't think that really adds anything.

Note that this isn't causing me any problems - I can ssh to the remote 
box and do what I need to do, but I'm curious as to what the error 
messages mean.


Niall