From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 11 18:06:52 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 903AC106564A for ; Thu, 11 Nov 2010 18:06:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from slackmails@gmail.com) Received: from mail-gx0-f182.google.com (mail-gx0-f182.google.com [209.85.161.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E2FC8FC1B for ; Thu, 11 Nov 2010 18:06:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: by gxk9 with SMTP id 9so1429311gxk.13 for ; Thu, 11 Nov 2010 10:06:51 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:received:date:message-id :subject:from:to:content-type; bh=fGjwkz//V0Wn4+iPCGReUAtt47S5rr39A8Mr0P2wC/U=; b=FuSNJzw98+3M9nxRoImbEVz6tHJsE83vTyeMe7STbUYob8byEPHlis4vhmX1AkyLEs K+qwDyyUEFHoIeDN77kIaJC3WFxczl66a51YB6Mw1owDuR37ixGK77qvor9Ck9Y3aDIQ DyPpXAw5FcDHJiGU1nAftFpO93gL3f5bmHkoQ= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; b=Wyfh+xI8bNDotWBIad2SzyJWLQsLr8osK1FbLN/M3GqigXJhWtHSrxoK5Mxurgc7be hi0QBQ6K84fdpa3vZ8+j/9TiZmhhjHMMe5GiRq3I+KuNDOefmeMDV64HtfXvRNT0kJHu 18nlXhAcw5iI04CutFD1UnMEyQinTNjJCaVZU= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.91.44.12 with SMTP id w12mr1794714agj.64.1289498811429; Thu, 11 Nov 2010 10:06:51 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.90.87.4 with HTTP; Thu, 11 Nov 2010 10:06:51 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2010 13:06:51 -0500 Message-ID: From: Jerrin To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: ssh authentication error X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2010 18:06:52 -0000 Hi, On a mac system i generated the key using ssh-keygen -t dsa and copied .ssh/id_dsa.pub to /home/user/.ssh/authorized_keys on a Freebsd server, but it prompts for the password There's no passphrase for the key. Key generated from the linux or Freebsd machine works fine on the server. it shows this message in the auth.log sshd[5752]: error: PAM: authentication error for username from host Thank you Rihaz