Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2007 16:19:24 +0000 From: Alex Zbyslaw <xfb52@dial.pipex.com> To: Olaf Greve <o.greve@axis.nl> 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 Message-ID: <45D1E50C.5000409@dial.pipex.com> In-Reply-To: <45D1DBA8.5040400@axis.nl> References: <45D07D5A.2040307@axis.nl> <8930024.post@talk.nabble.com> <45D1BDCA.8050709@axis.nl> <20070213090410.c1aa29bc.wmoran@collaborativefusion.com> <45D1DBA8.5040400@axis.nl>
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Olaf Greve wrote: > > The issue is that PuTTY does not fall back from its SSH2 attempt to > SSH1 (with password authentication), as is what I specified in my > /etc/ssh/sshd_config > > Is this what you tried too, or did you use SSH2 (i.e. key > authentication, instead of password authentication)? Unless I misunderstand, then you have a serious misapprehension. SSH1 versus SSH2 is *nothing* to do with keys versus passwords. Both SSH1 and SSH2 support password or key based authentication. The difference is that SSH1 an older protocol and is *insecure* and no-one should still be using it unless they have some legacy app which really cannot be updated. I strongly suggest that at the very least you enable SSH2 as the first protocol in sshd_config with a line like Protocol 2,1 though from what I can see, SSH2 only has been the default for a while, and rightly so. --Alex
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