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Date:      Thu, 11 Apr 2002 12:03:28 +0200
From:      Wijnand <freebsd@wiersma.be>
To:        David Preece <dpreece@paradise.net.nz>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: S/Key - this is embarrasing.
Message-ID:  <3CB55F70.4010803@wiersma.be>
References:  <20020411100011.E649ED198A@deborah.paradise.net.nz>

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David Preece wrote:

>So, in two days time I'm helping a newbie do his first FreeBSD install.
>
>I have a spare machine that did have 4.0 on it and therefore has 'known good' 
>hardware, and I have my arrived-this-morning 4.5 disks from Daemon News. 
>Since this is the first time I've done a 4.5 install I decide to kill an hour 
>just making sure it'll all go OK. I've installed the OS, given myself a user, 
>DHCP'd onto the network and all is good.
>
>Until I come to ssh onto it from a Linux box I just happen to have in front 
>of me, whereupon I get:
>
>[davep@mandrake davep]$ ssh -V
>OpenSSH_3.1p1, SSH protocols 1.5/2.0, OpenSSL 0x0090603f
>[davep@mandrake davep]$ ssh 192.168.0.65
>otp-md5 498 fo0162 ext
>S/Key Password:
>
>And then the password (which I can use to login locally) doesn't work. What 
>gives? The only real cause I can think of is that there's no reverse DNS here 
>right now. Hmmmm.
>
>So I'm sure this has been asked before, but the mailing list search engine on 
>FreeBSD.org appears to be down, adding to my acute embarrasment. All this on 
>a day when it finally looks like I'm going to get *paid* (no, not by the 
>newbie) for using FreeBSD.
>
>Dave
>
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You have to edit your /etc/ssh/sshd_config

you have to change 1 line:
SkeyAuthentication yes
to
SkeyAuthentication no

that's all.




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