Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2004 17:44:05 -0500 From: Ivan Georgiev <georgiev@vt.edu> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: CANNOT SSH to my computer Message-ID: <200411181744.06127.georgiev@vt.edu> In-Reply-To: <52aaba24041118054236d89fc2@mail.gmail.com> References: <200411172035.59370.dsyphers@u.washington.edu> <20041118132605.GA12767@catflap.slightlystrange.org> <52aaba24041118054236d89fc2@mail.gmail.com>
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On Thursday 18 November 2004 08:42 am, Sebastian Holmqvist wrote: > On Thu, 18 Nov 2004 13:26:05 +0000, Daniel Bye > > <freebsd-questions@slightlystrange.org> wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 18, 2004 at 07:49:03AM -0500, Ivan Georgiev wrote: > > > I changed PasswordAuthentication to 'yes' and this time it asks me 6 > > > times for my password (3 times beginning with "Password:" > > > > You can disable these first three by changing > > ChallengeResponseAuthentication to no. > > > > > and another 3 times with "Password for xxxx@yyy.yyy.yyy.yyy) and > > > rejects me again with the same message from sshd. > > > > Sounds like a silly question, I know, but are you typing your password > > correctly? For example, is your local keymap sending the right > > characters to the server? > > > > > Adding more verbosity didn't help me to understand the problem. I also > > > noticed that my ida_dsa.pub key ends with "ivan@" . Usualy I have seen > > > it ending with "someone@some_address_here". Is this a problem? > > > > No, I don't think so. It is just a convenient identifier for human > > consumption - it's somewhat easier to use the last little bit of the key > > than to try and remember the whole keyblock! > > > > Have you copied ida_dsa.pub from the client machine to your > > ~/.ssh/authorized_keys file on the server? > > > > > > > > Dan > > > > -- > > Daniel Bye > > > > PGP Key: ftp://ftp.slightlystrange.org/pgpkey/dan.asc > > PGP Key fingerprint: 3B9D 8BBB EB03 BA83 5DB4 3B88 86FC F03A 90A1 BE8F > > _ > > ASCII ribbon campaign ( ) > > - against HTML, vCards and X > > - proprietary attachments in e-mail / \ > > Sure you have changed your keymap? > > And sorry if I misunderstood, are you trying to ssh to the computer > you're sitting on? I do not think I have done any changes to the keymap. And, yes, I am trying to connect to the computer I am sitting on plus have tried to connect from my office computer. In both cases no luck. I will appreciate if you can help me to resolve the issue. Thanks, Ivan
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