Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2005 14:37:35 +0000 From: Xian <ian@codepad.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Mindterm and SSH Message-ID: <200502181437.35907.ian@codepad.net> In-Reply-To: <a82b9719050218060234b3483b@mail.gmail.com> References: <a82b9719050218060234b3483b@mail.gmail.com>
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On Friday 18 February 2005 14:02, sn1tch wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I have a question regarding the use of the Mindterm applet on a site > sitting on my bsd machine. I have it setup and everything runs great, > except for when it comes time to login via the applet. Mindterm, upon > entering my username, abruptly responds "Authentication method > 'password' not supported by server". I went into the sshd_config and > changed the 'passwordauthentication' to yes and it now asks me for my > password (which it never did before) and I get my shell. Now firstly, > is this an option I want to leave on? Or is there a better way of > going about this? Please forgive the ignorance but I hope this is the > right list to post to. > > > Thanks in advance for any help. Weather passwords are ok or not depends on a lot of things (I'm sure someone else will say more on this). You may be able to use public/private keys.I don't know what exactly Mindterm is. The man pages for ssh-keygen, ssh-agent, and ssh is where I found out how to use them. -- /Xian "Succeed in spite of management" unknown author
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