From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 18 13:43:53 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 C19B616A4CE for ; Thu, 18 Nov 2004 13:43:53 +0000 (GMT) Received: from out008.verizon.net (out008pub.verizon.net [206.46.170.108]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 29BD843D1D for ; Thu, 18 Nov 2004 13:43:53 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from georgiev@vt.edu) Received: from bburg.bg ([151.199.126.93]) by out008.verizon.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.06 201-253-122-130-106-20030910) with ESMTP id <20041118134352.UTYI17228.out008.verizon.net@bburg.bg> for ; Thu, 18 Nov 2004 07:43:52 -0600 From: Ivan Georgiev To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2004 08:43:50 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.7.1 References: <200411172035.59370.dsyphers@u.washington.edu> <200411180749.03385.georgiev@vt.edu> <20041118132605.GA12767@catflap.slightlystrange.org> In-Reply-To: <20041118132605.GA12767@catflap.slightlystrange.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200411180843.51085.georgiev@vt.edu> X-Authentication-Info: Submitted using SMTP AUTH at out008.verizon.net from [151.199.126.93] at Thu, 18 Nov 2004 07:43:52 -0600 Subject: Re: CANNOT SSH to my computer X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2004 13:43:53 -0000 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