From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 12 13:34:11 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 BCCC116A4CE for ; Mon, 12 Jan 2004 13:34:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from m00.ca.astound.net (m00.ca.astound.net [64.85.239.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C5DBF43D93 for ; Mon, 12 Jan 2004 13:33:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rchopra@cal.berkeley.edu) Received: from cal.berkeley.edu (astound-64-85-244-72.ca.astound.net [64.85.244.72]) by m00.ca.astound.net (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i0CLX1KL011495 for ; Mon, 12 Jan 2004 13:33:01 -0800 Message-ID: <4003126E.5030107@cal.berkeley.edu> Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2004 13:32:30 -0800 From: Rishi Chopra User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.6b) Gecko/20031205 Thunderbird/0.4 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new Subject: FreeBSD, SSH and "Enter Authentication Response" 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: Mon, 12 Jan 2004 21:34:11 -0000 I have a nitpicky question about logging into a FreeBSD machine and SSH. I'm using a minimal FreeBSD install and SSH Secure Shell client v3.2.0 - the crux of the problem is I am unable to "smoothly" login. When I login to my machine, I'm prompted to enter an "authentication response". A window is displayed with "Enter Authentication Response" in the title bar, and two buttons at the bottom ('OK' and 'Cancel') - the text says: Enter your authentication response. Password: If I enter my password, I'm prompted with another window that has the same title in the title bar, but says the following only: Enter your authentication response. I can then either select the 'OK' button or the 'Cancel' button. If I choose cancel for the first dialogue box, I'm prompted with a window that says "Enter Password" in the title bar and the text reading: Password: This is the window I normally see when I login to other *nix servers (mainly servers on the UC Berkeley campus, mostly SunOS 5.8 boxes). Is the FreeBSD box doing something during the SSH authentication process that causes the client not to display the enter password dialogue as soon as I connect to the server? How I can get my server to simply prompt for my password the first time (e.g. can I make a change such that I don't have to press 'OK' on a secod dialogue after entering my password, or so that I don't have to press 'Cancel' first and then enter my password?) Thanks, Rishi