From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 7 11:27:03 2005 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 D617D16A4CE for ; Fri, 7 Jan 2005 11:27:03 +0000 (GMT) Received: from helium.webpack.hosteurope.de (helium.webpack.hosteurope.de [217.115.142.90]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F4C243D39 for ; Fri, 7 Jan 2005 11:27:03 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from me@hexren.net) Received: by helium.webpack.hosteurope.de running Exim 4.34 using asmtp helo=hexren.steenbuck.net) id 1CmsGk-0001Vv-9v; Fri, 07 Jan 2005 12:27:02 +0100 Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2005 12:27:01 +0100 From: Hexren X-Mailer: The Bat! (v1.62i) Business X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <171200245.20050107122701@hexren.net> To: Olaf Greve In-Reply-To: <41DE7100.9050606@axis.nl> References: <41B857A0.2070906@leg.ensieg.inpg.fr> <41DE7100.9050606@axis.nl> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problem when SSH-ing to FreeBSD 5.3 using PuTTY? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: Hexren List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2005 11:27:04 -0000 OG> Hi all, OG> On two distinct machines (both running FreeBSD 5.3 release, one is the OG> AMD-64 version, the other is the i386 version) I am experiencing OG> problems when trying to SSH to the machine using PuTTY. OG> PuTTY shows the login prompt just fine, but when entering the proper OG> username/password (yes, I am positive I typed it correctly -multiple OG> times, in fact- :) ). Yet, for some reason this combination does not OG> seem to get accepted. OG> Does anyone know the reason for this (note: I am not starting the SSH OG> daemon from inetd)? Is there perhaps some (new) setting that changed OG> between 5.2.1 and 5.3 that causes this, or am I doing something else OG> terribly wrong? :) OG> Thanks in advance for any answers, and cheers! OG> Olafo OG> _______________________________________________ OG> freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list OG> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions OG> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" --------------------------------------------- Look in /etc/ssh/sshd_conf for the setting "PasswordAuthentication" I think the default changed from yes to no. HExren