Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2004 14:42:08 +0100 From: Sebastian Holmqvist <sebastian.holmqvist@gmail.com> To: Daniel Bye <freebsd-questions@slightlystrange.org>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: CANNOT SSH to my computer Message-ID: <52aaba24041118054236d89fc2@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20041118132605.GA12767@catflap.slightlystrange.org> References: <200411172035.59370.dsyphers@u.washington.edu> <200411180030.05840.georgiev@vt.edu> <20041118104254.GA12647@catflap.slightlystrange.org> <200411180749.03385.georgiev@vt.edu> <20041118132605.GA12767@catflap.slightlystrange.org>
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On Thu, 18 Nov 2004 13:26:05 +0000, Daniel Bye <freebsd-questions@slightlystrange.org> wrote: > 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 > > times for my password (3 times beginning with "Password:" > > 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 > > me again with the same message from sshd. > > 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 > > noticed that my ida_dsa.pub key ends with "ivan@" . Usualy I have seen > > 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 > > -- > 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 / \ > > > Sure you have changed your keymap? And sorry if I misunderstood, are you trying to ssh to the computer you're sitting on? -- Sebastian Holmqvist Webprogrammer / HL2 modder http://cae.hl2files.com
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