From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 18 13:26:06 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C229716A4CE for ; Thu, 18 Nov 2004 13:26:06 +0000 (GMT) Received: from catflap.slightlystrange.org (cpc2-cmbg1-3-0-cust94.cmbg.cable.ntl.com [213.107.104.94]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4352443D45 for ; Thu, 18 Nov 2004 13:26:06 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from danielby@slightlystrange.org) Received: from danielby by catflap.slightlystrange.org with local (Exim 4.43 (FreeBSD)) id 1CUmIX-0006pk-9L for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 18 Nov 2004 13:26:05 +0000 Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2004 13:26:05 +0000 From: Daniel Bye To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20041118132605.GA12767@catflap.slightlystrange.org> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <200411172035.59370.dsyphers@u.washington.edu> <200411180030.05840.georgiev@vt.edu> <20041118104254.GA12647@catflap.slightlystrange.org> <200411180749.03385.georgiev@vt.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="Qxx1br4bt0+wmkIi" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200411180749.03385.georgiev@vt.edu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Subject: Re: CANNOT SSH to my computer X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: Daniel Bye List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2004 13:26:06 -0000 --Qxx1br4bt0+wmkIi Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Nov 18, 2004 at 07:49:03AM -0500, Ivan Georgiev wrote: > I changed PasswordAuthentication to 'yes' and this time it asks me 6=20 > times for my password (3 times beginning with "Password:"=20 You can disable these first three by changing ChallengeResponseAuthentication to no. > and another 3 times with "Password for xxxx@yyy.yyy.yyy.yyy) and rejects= =20 > me again with the same message from sshd.=20 Sounds like a silly question, I know, but are you typing your password correctly? For example, is your local keymap sending the right characters to the server? > Adding more verbosity didn't help me to understand the problem. I also=20 > noticed that my ida_dsa.pub key ends with "ivan@" . Usualy I have seen=20 > it ending with "someone@some_address_here". Is this a problem? No, I don't think so. It is just a convenient identifier for human consumption - it's somewhat easier to use the last little bit of the key than to try and remember the whole keyblock! Have you copied ida_dsa.pub from the client machine to your ~/.ssh/authorized_keys file on the server? Dan --=20 Daniel Bye PGP Key: ftp://ftp.slightlystrange.org/pgpkey/dan.asc PGP Key fingerprint: 3B9D 8BBB EB03 BA83 5DB4 3B88 86FC F03A 90A1 BE8F _ ASCII ribbon campaign ( ) - against HTML, vCards and X - proprietary attachments in e-mail / \ --Qxx1br4bt0+wmkIi Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFBnKLshvzwOpChvo8RAp4dAKDHLVQjOb48P0QefA6HaKZTAWZjwACfevV5 lOFYULRDJxP+NV8qWcqrv9c= =kguk -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Qxx1br4bt0+wmkIi--