Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2004 08:43:50 -0500 From: Ivan Georgiev <georgiev@vt.edu> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: CANNOT SSH to my computer Message-ID: <200411180843.51085.georgiev@vt.edu> In-Reply-To: <20041118132605.GA12767@catflap.slightlystrange.org> References: <200411172035.59370.dsyphers@u.washington.edu> <200411180749.03385.georgiev@vt.edu> <20041118132605.GA12767@catflap.slightlystrange.org>
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On Thursday 18 November 2004 08:26 am, Daniel Bye 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. OK, I changed that 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? Well, I tried to type the password on the terminal just to see what I am typing and everything looks OK. But still no connection ... > > 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? No I haven't. I did it and again nothing. There is something new though. The error message changed and is: sshd[88938]: error: PAM: success for ivan from XXXXXXXXXX Ivan
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