Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2006 09:49:05 -0800 From: Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu> To: Leonidas Tsampros <ltsampros@upnet.gr>, FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: SSH problem Message-ID: <3EE759CD-C148-4C79-A318-0F41D3F96235@u.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <20060109095713.GA3469@bifteki.lan> References: <20060109083200.26248.qmail@web54413.mail.yahoo.com> <20060109095713.GA3469@bifteki.lan>
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On Jan 9, 2006, at 1:57 AM, Leonidas Tsampros wrote: > On Mon, Jan 09, 2006 at 12:32:00AM -0800, Robert Stevenson wrote: >> I'm able to log-in to my FreeBSD box using SSH just a >> few days ago, but now I can't. Whenever I try I only >> get to enter my username and the password prompt does >> not appear anymore. It seems authentication stops >> after I enter my username. I'm using PUTTY as a client >> >> I can login directly to the box and I could see that >> SSHD is running. Any ideas what's wrong with it? >> >> > > I've encountered a similar situation some time ago with a firewall i > used to run. To troobleshoot the sshd daemon, just login to your > box, shut down the sshd that's running with > > $ /etc/rc.d/sshd stop > > and then run sshd in debug mode with verbose output by running > > $ /usr/sbin/sshd -D -f /etc/ssh/sshd_config > > by running this command the daemon will run but it will not detach > itself in the background, but instead will output lots of debuging > information. > > After that try to login using putty, and take a look at the last 10-20 > lines of the login process. There should be enough information about > the nature of the error. Read my thread that I just made, Extremely slow authentication via SSH on FreeBSD 6.0. It'll probably solve your problem. -Garrett
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