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,
>
> 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.
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> 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
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