Re: SSH user authentication problem

From: Alfred Perlstein (bright@mu.org)
Date: 11/29/01 

Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2001 18:32:42 -0600
From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org>
To: George.Giles@mcmail.vanderbilt.edu

* George.Giles@mcmail.vanderbilt.edu <George.Giles@mcmail.vanderbilt.edu> [011128 18:29] wrote:
>
> I use password authentication for ssh.
>
> A single user account not authenticate when the correct password is given.
>
> It just prompts for the password again.
>
> Other accounts can successfuly login as expected.
>
> Configuration is protocol 2 only.
>
> This occurs on both FreeBSD 4.3 and 4.4 RELEASE.
>
> Any ideas ?

Output from 'ssh -v host' and the exact command line given might help. 

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