From owner-freebsd-security Thu Aug 24 12:42:23 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from stud.alakhawayn.ma (stud.alakhawayn.ma [193.194.63.94]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 89D1C37B422 for ; Thu, 24 Aug 2000 12:42:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (961BE653994@localhost) by stud.alakhawayn.ma (8.9.0/8.9.0) with SMTP id TAA17898; Thu, 24 Aug 2000 19:37:39 GMT Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2000 19:37:39 +0000 (GMT) From: Ali Alaoui El Hassani <961BE653994@stud.alakhawayn.ma> To: "Sean J. Schluntz" Cc: Visigoth , Daniel Hauer , freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SSH problem ??? In-Reply-To: <200008241928.MAA19313@mail.workofstone.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Dear Sir, I thank you for your help. Ali. On Thu, 24 Aug 2000 schluntz@timberwolf.workofstone.net wrote: > > In message , Ali > Alaoui El Hassani writes: > >Dear Sir, > >I thank you for your reply. > >the error is Disconnected, authentication error no further authentication > >methods available. > > Actually, that error means exactially what it says, you have run out of > authentication methods. The sshd server has looked at the methods your > have setup in your sshd(2)_config file and has not been able to ok all > of the ones you have picked. > > if your "RequiredAuthentications" is set to publickey and you don't have > your public key on the system you will get this error. > > if your "RequiredAuthentications" is set to publickey,password and you don't > have your public key on the system, but you do give it your correct > password you will still get the error because it was not able to authenticate > _all_ of the _required_ methods. Same goes if you have hostbased set but > arn't coming from a host you have setup as authorized. > > -Sean > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message