From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 9 17:48:13 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 8088116A41F for ; Mon, 9 Jan 2006 17:48:13 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from youshi10@u.washington.edu) Received: from mxout4.cac.washington.edu (mxout4.cac.washington.edu [140.142.33.19]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EF08243D46 for ; Mon, 9 Jan 2006 17:48:12 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from youshi10@u.washington.edu) Received: from smtp.washington.edu (smtp.washington.edu [140.142.33.9]) by mxout4.cac.washington.edu (8.13.5+UW05.10/8.13.5+UW05.09) with ESMTP id k09HmBHa024150 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Mon, 9 Jan 2006 09:48:12 -0800 X-Auth-Received: from [128.208.200.23] (D-128-208-200-23.dhcp4.washington.edu [128.208.200.23]) (authenticated authid=youshi10) by smtp.washington.edu (8.13.5+UW05.10/8.13.5+UW05.09) with ESMTP id k09HmB0Z015750 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-SHA bits=128 verify=NOT); Mon, 9 Jan 2006 09:48:11 -0800 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v746.2) In-Reply-To: <20060109095713.GA3469@bifteki.lan> References: <20060109083200.26248.qmail@web54413.mail.yahoo.com> <20060109095713.GA3469@bifteki.lan> Message-Id: <3EE759CD-C148-4C79-A318-0F41D3F96235@u.washington.edu> From: Garrett Cooper Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2006 09:49:05 -0800 To: Leonidas Tsampros , FreeBSD Questions X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.746.2) X-Uwash-Spam: Gauge=IIIIIII, Probability=7%, Report='HTML_70_90 0.1, __CT 0, __CTYPE_HAS_BOUNDARY 0, __CTYPE_MULTIPART 0, __CTYPE_MULTIPART_ALT 0, __HAS_MSGID 0, __HAS_X_MAILER 0, __MIME_HTML 0, __MIME_VERSION 0, __SANE_MSGID 0, __TAG_EXISTS_HTML 0' Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: Subject: Re: SSH problem X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 09 Jan 2006 17:48:13 -0000 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