From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 13 16:12:57 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CCA5A16A4A1 for ; Tue, 13 Feb 2007 16:12:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from o.greve@axis.nl) Received: from yggdrasil.interstroom.nl (yggdrasil.interstroom.nl [80.85.129.11]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 788F413C4B2 for ; Tue, 13 Feb 2007 16:12:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from o.greve@axis.nl) Received: from ip127-180.introweb.nl ([80.65.127.180] helo=[192.168.1.42]) by yggdrasil.interstroom.nl with asmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1HH0Gy-0000CJ-00; Tue, 13 Feb 2007 17:12:53 +0100 Message-ID: <45D1E383.8050108@axis.nl> Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2007 17:12:51 +0100 From: Olaf Greve User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (X11/20061222) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Bill Moran References: <45D07D5A.2040307@axis.nl> <8930024.post@talk.nabble.com> <45D1BDCA.8050709@axis.nl> <20070213090410.c1aa29bc.wmoran@collaborativefusion.com> <45D1DBA8.5040400@axis.nl> In-Reply-To: <45D1DBA8.5040400@axis.nl> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-MailScanner-Information: Interstroom virusscan, please e-mail helpdesk@interstroom.nl for more information X-MailScanner-SpamCheck: Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [SOLVED] Help please: how to enable SSH password authentication under FreeBSD 6.2? Solved - but not in an expected way 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: Tue, 13 Feb 2007 16:12:57 -0000 Hi again, I must ammend a technically incorrect thing that I wrote previously: > Is this what you tried too, or did you use SSH2 (i.e. key > authentication, instead of password authentication)? Both SSH1 and SSH2 can use password authentication, so I incorrectly wrote that "PuTTY does not fall back to SSH1 password authentication". This is an obfuscating statement. The issue in fact, seems to reside in some issues between PuTTY and FreeBSD 6.2's SSH when it comes down to the key negotiation (using SSH2), and it simply does not get beyond that point, and hence almost never presents me with the login prompt. Perhaps I'll give the SSHD a go with the -d option, and perhaps I'll also check if I can find PuTTY debug logs; even if it were just for the heck of not wanting to give in on this. :D Cheers, Olafo