Re: can't get openssh-3.4p1 to authenticate (failed password and permission denied)

From: Roy Smith (roy@panix.com)
Date: 06/29/02 

From: Roy Smith <roy@panix.com>
Date: Sat, 29 Jun 2002 13:10:16 -0400

jigglefish21@yahoo.com (bad_knee) wrote:
> I had ssh working fine prior to 3.4p1.. just getting "permission
> denied" on the client and "failed password" on the server. I nuked
> my old server and client keys and re-did make install on both.

I had a similar problem. Turned out that the 3.4p1 install was careful
to notice that I had a pre-existing sshd_config file, and preserved it.
Unfortunately, something in the config file was incompatable with the
new software (I think my HostKey line pointed to an old-style key file,
so the SSH2 key couldn't be found).

I just deleted all my old config files (saved them someplace, of
course), and let the install script create new ones for me. Worked like
a champ after that.

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