Re: OpenSSH 3.4p1 fails to authenticate

From: Brian (briang@NOSPAM.OasisAdvancedEngineering.com)
Date: 06/28/02


From: Brian <briang@NOSPAM.OasisAdvancedEngineering.com>
Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2002 11:31:14 -0400

Brian wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> I upgraded to OpenSSH 3.4p1 as suggested by the site, and I am running
> into troubles. Before this, I was running 3.1. I rely on the
> compression of SSH, and have no use for the UsePrivilegeSeparation.
>
> Either way, when I started the daemon, I got two errors:
>
> >This platform does not support both privilege separation and >compression
> >Compression disabled
>
> and
>
> >Privilege separation user sshd does not exist
>
> So, I set "UsePrivilegeSeparation no". This allows sshd to run, but a
> new problem.... I cant authenticate. I continue to get:
>
> >Permission denied, please try again.
>
> *growl* I dont know why this is. I also use rsh, which I CAN
> successfully log in with, and ssh 3.1 gave me no problems. I am using
> the exact same ssh_config file as before, only with the
> "UsePrivilegeSeparation no" line added. Any ideas?
>
> Brian
>

Ok, I solved my own problem. I forgot that back when I built 3.1, I
compiled ssh with MD5 password authentication turned on. I did it again
for 3.4, and it worked.

Brian



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