From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 28 03:13:24 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 EE0FC16A4CE for ; Fri, 28 Jan 2005 03:13:24 +0000 (GMT) Received: from chaos.eyede.com (chaos.eyede.com [202.21.136.251]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4811843D31 for ; Fri, 28 Jan 2005 03:13:24 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd@eyede.com) Received: from localhost (localhost.eyede.com [127.0.0.1]) by chaos.eyede.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2ADD454A9; Fri, 28 Jan 2005 16:14:00 +1300 (NZDT) Received: from [172.16.99.14] (ewsn04.ntdns.eyede.com [172.16.99.14]) by chaos.eyede.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F75C54A6; Fri, 28 Jan 2005 16:13:58 +1300 (NZDT) Message-ID: <41F9ADCE.4080705@eyede.com> Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2005 16:13:18 +1300 From: Nigel Wohlers Organization: Eyede Systems Ltd User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Windows/20041206) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Fabian Anklam References: <467b1e7a050127172176b829f4@mail.gmail.com> <467b1e7a05012719057f9b7a30@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <467b1e7a05012719057f9b7a30@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: Amavisd at eyede.com cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sshd_config / failed authentication X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: nigel@eyede.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2005 03:13:25 -0000 Fabian Anklam wrote: > On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 02:21:08 +0100, Fabian Anklam > wrote: > >>Dear all, >> >>could someone be so kind to point out to me which settings in >>sshd_config have to be changed to allow login from an ssh client >>without getting "authentication failed" messages on the console and a >>timeout on the guest machine. >> >>My client, putty in this case display the login: dialog, but after >>entering the username hangs without ever displaying the password: >>dialog >> >>My FreeBSD5.3 Release box ps -aux reveals: >> >>root 722 0.0 0.7 3360 2812 ?? Is 12:12AM 0:00.01 sshd >>root 755 0.0 0.8 4720 2920 ?? Is 12:29AM 0:00.05 sshd: >>[accepted] (sshd) >>sshd 756 0.0 0.8 4792 2936 ?? S 12:29AM 0:00.18 sshd: [net] (sshd) >>root 760 0.0 0.1 348 232 v0 R+ 12:29AM 0:00.00 grep sshd >> >>and then, after about a minute: >> >>root 722 0.0 0.7 3360 2812 ?? Is 12:12AM 0:00.01 sshd >>root 755 0.0 0.8 4912 3072 ?? Ss 12:29AM 0:00.06 sshd: fan >>[priv] (sshd) >>sshd 756 0.0 0.8 4768 2940 ?? S 12:29AM 0:00.18 sshd: fan [net] (sshd) >>root 835 0.0 0.1 348 232 v0 R+ 12:30AM 0:00.00 grep sshd >> >>and then, after about a minute again: >> >>[...] sshd[755}: fatal: Timeout before authentication for 192.168.0.10 >> >>I did man sshd_config and changed some settings despite not >>understanding one word but to no avail so i restored the original. >> >>I tried to consult the handbook, also to no avail. >> >>Help needed and appreciated, >> >>Fabian >> > > > Just a short followup: > > ssh localhost from ttyv connects and I reach a ttyp > ssh "NIC IP" from ttyv yields a timeout like a remote connection Reverse DNS lookup timeout? N