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Date:      Thu, 04 Mar 2004 13:08:34 -0800
From:      "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net>
To:        Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Breakage in X11 over ssh tunnel 
Message-ID:  <20040304210834.6862D5D07@ptavv.es.net>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 04 Mar 2004 13:04:50 PST." <20040304210454.12BB85D07@ptavv.es.net> 

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> From: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
> Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2004 13:04:50 -0800
> 
> >> i can deal with the -Y or hack my ssh_config.  but i have some
> >> windoze users who now seem unable to get in.  they whine
> >> 
> >>> SSH Secure Shell: "Authentication failed. Most likely the password yo
> >>> supplied was incorrect.  The user name might also might be wrong, or the
> >>> account might be disabled."
> >> 
> >> any clues?
> > 
> > Are they running SSH V2? By default, OpenSSH on FreeBSD only supports
> > V2. If your clients on Windows are not configured to do V2 (or don't
> > have V2 keys), they will fail.
> 
> i stopped allowing/supporting v1 about the end of wwii.  so that's
> not the problem.

I don't know about the app on Windows, but can it log? Something
equivalent to 'ssh -v'? You might also set up another sshd with -d on a
special port and have someone connect to that and get more detail on why
it's failing.
-- 
R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
Energy Sciences Network (ESnet)
Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)
E-mail: oberman@es.net			Phone: +1 510 486-8634



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