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Date:      Thu, 18 Nov 2004 10:42:54 +0000
From:      Daniel Bye <freebsd-questions@slightlystrange.org>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: CANNOT SSH to my computer
Message-ID:  <20041118104254.GA12647@catflap.slightlystrange.org>
In-Reply-To: <200411180030.05840.georgiev@vt.edu>
References:  <200411172035.59370.dsyphers@u.washington.edu> <200411180030.05840.georgiev@vt.edu>

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On Thu, Nov 18, 2004 at 12:30:05AM -0500, Ivan Georgiev wrote:
> Hi,
>=20
> I am running RELEASE-5-3 and tried to ssh to my machine (sshd is running)=
. It=20
> asks me 3 times for my password and then quits. The output is shown below=
.=20
> However, if I try "ssh localhost" instead of the ip address (I am using a=
 DSL=20
> connection) everyting is OK.

[--- snip ---]

> The message from sshd is:
>=20
> sshd[41578]: error: PAM: authentication error for XXXX from YYY.verizon.n=
et

The default behaviour for sshd now is to not allow password authentication.=
 =20
The Password: prompts you see are for the PAM keyboard-interactive=20
authentication method.  To allow straight password authentication, change=
=20
this line in /etc/ssh/sshd_config:

    #PasswordAuthentication no

to this:

    PasswordAuthentication yes

Note the removal of `#'!

and then:

# /etc/rc.d/sshd restart

If you want to use public key authentication, then try your session
again but with two or even three `-v' flags to get more debugging
messages.  This should give you more idea of what's going on.

HTH

Dan

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