Date: 23 Nov 2004 09:23:56 -0500 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 5.3 SSH Unable to authenticate Message-ID: <44mzx8fxtv.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <20041122163407.44679.qmail@web53607.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20041122163407.44679.qmail@web53607.mail.yahoo.com>
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scott renna <flexble2547@yahoo.com> writes: > Had a concern regarding sshd on a freshly built and > cvsuped 5.3 box. Here's whats going on. Whenever I > try to ssh to the system from a Windows client, my > system accepts the FreeBSD SSH key, but then cannot > authenticate. > > This is the message received from SecureCRT: > > SecureCRT has disconnected from the server. Reason: > Unable to authenticate using any of the configured > authentication methods. > > I checked SecureCRT's configuration and it is as it > was when I was running 5.2. I had no issues sshing. > I took at look at /etc/ssh/sshd_config and the section > entitled Authentication, and here's what is shown on > line 38: > > #Authentication: > > > #LoginGraceTime 2m > > Is it odd for there to be nothing under > Authentication? I don't have a 5.2 box to take a look > at to view its sshd_config file. Configure SecureCRT to use keyboard-interactive authentication. I believe you can configure sshd to accept old-style password authentication, but since SecureCRT supports the more secure approach, it would be better to use that.
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