Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2000 14:55:50 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> To: Ruppert Brian S <ruppert.bria@students.uwlax.edu> Cc: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Authentication hanging with OpenSSH on 4.1.1-RELEASE Message-ID: <20001102145550.B20567@fw.wintelcom.net> In-Reply-To: <A743B7E36C43D311850200508B10DCDA0130E6A4@sleepy.intra.uwlax.edu>; from ruppert.bria@students.uwlax.edu on Thu, Nov 02, 2000 at 04:13:17PM -0600 References: <A743B7E36C43D311850200508B10DCDA0130E6A4@sleepy.intra.uwlax.edu>
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* Ruppert Brian S <ruppert.bria@students.uwlax.edu> [001102 14:15] wrote: > > This is only my second week wtih FreeBSD, so please bear with me. My > Linux experience was not able to help me with this problem, and I tried > searching around mailing list archives but am thinking this problem is > something really simple that I am overlooking. > > I have a very simple configuration. I have a Windows 2000 system and a > FreeBSD 4.1.1-RELEASE system. They only have local IP addresses > (192.168.0.1/255.255.255.0) and (192.168.0.2/255.255.255.0). > > I can connect through telnet/ftp/www to the FreeBSD machine and ping it > without any problems at all. However, when I use either PuTTY or SecureSSH > to connect through SSH, it asks for my name and password, then sits there > forever and doesn't authenticate me. I even turned on debugging and ran the > sshd manually. It gets to the line "debug: attempting authentication for > brianr" and hangs there until I give up and kill sshd. > > Can someone provide any ideas on how to fix this? SSH isn't critical for > what I'm doing since I'm on a private local network, but I do intend to move > this system onto a dedicated Internet connection soon and would like to > already have SSH working and in place. Looks like a dns problem, get DNS working on your freebsd box so that It can lookup the address of the machine connecting to it. -- -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org] "I have the heart of a child; I keep it in a jar on my desk." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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