Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2004 11:16:38 -0600 From: Nikolas Britton <freebsd@nbritton.org> To: scott renna <flexble2547@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 5.3 SSH Unable to authenticate Message-ID: <41A21EF6.9080906@nbritton.org> In-Reply-To: <20041122163407.44679.qmail@web53607.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20041122163407.44679.qmail@web53607.mail.yahoo.com>
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scott renna wrote: >Hello list, > >Had a concern regarding sshd on a freshly built and >cvsuped 5.3 box. Here's whats going on. Whenever I >try to ssh to the system from a Windows client, my >system accepts the FreeBSD SSH key, but then cannot >authenticate. > >This is the message received from SecureCRT: > >SecureCRT has disconnected from the server. Reason: >Unable to authenticate using any of the configured >authentication methods. > >I checked SecureCRT's configuration and it is as it >was when I was running 5.2. I had no issues sshing. >I took at look at /etc/ssh/sshd_config and the section >entitled Authentication, and here's what is shown on >line 38: > >#Authentication: > > >#LoginGraceTime 2m > >Is it odd for there to be nothing under >Authentication? I don't have a 5.2 box to take a look >at to view its sshd_config file. > > > > Maybe there a dns or hostname problem and SecureCRT is hanging up before ssh times out and gives you a prompt, weird stuff happens to *nix boxes when dns, etc/hosts is messed up. the only other advise is to try sshing to localhost and try PuTTY instead of SecureCRT.
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