Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2004 07:49:03 -0500 From: Ivan Georgiev <georgiev@vt.edu> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: CANNOT SSH to my computer Message-ID: <200411180749.03385.georgiev@vt.edu> In-Reply-To: <20041118104254.GA12647@catflap.slightlystrange.org> References: <200411172035.59370.dsyphers@u.washington.edu> <200411180030.05840.georgiev@vt.edu> <20041118104254.GA12647@catflap.slightlystrange.org>
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On Thursday 18 November 2004 05:42 am, Daniel Bye wrote: > On Thu, Nov 18, 2004 at 12:30:05AM -0500, Ivan Georgiev wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I am running RELEASE-5-3 and tried to ssh to my machine (sshd is > > running). It asks me 3 times for my password and then quits. The output > > is shown below. However, if I try "ssh localhost" instead of the ip > > address (I am using a DSL connection) everyting is OK. > > [--- snip ---] > > > The message from sshd is: > > > > sshd[41578]: error: PAM: authentication error for XXXX from > > YYY.verizon.net > > The default behaviour for sshd now is to not allow password authentication. > The Password: prompts you see are for the PAM keyboard-interactive > authentication method. To allow straight password authentication, change > 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 Thank you, I changed PasswordAuthentication to 'yes' and this time it asks me 6 times for my password (3 times beginning with "Password:" and another 3 times with "Password for xxxx@yyy.yyy.yyy.yyy) and rejects me again with the same message from sshd. Adding more verbosity didn't help me to understand the problem. I also noticed that my ida_dsa.pub key ends with "ivan@" . Usualy I have seen it ending with "someone@some_address_here". Is this a problem? Thanks again for the help! Ivan
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