Re: SSH password authentication failure

From: Entitty (entitty@hotmail.com)
Date: 02/17/03


From: "Entitty" <entitty@hotmail.com>
Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2003 15:39:05 -0500


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Cam:

Verify the permissions in your home directory are not writable by
group
/home/cam
chmod 744

Ron

"cam" <camccuk@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:5c54b98.0302120920.5c7b822e@posting.google.com...
> Hello all,
>
> I have just compiled openssh3.5p1 on RH8.0 but I'm unable to
> connect to the machine, receiving a:
>
> Permission denied (publickey,password,keyboard-interactive).
>
> and seeing a "Failed password for root from 1.2.3.4" message in the
> logs. I'm aware that there can be problems with md5 passwords but I
> compiled it --with-pam which should obviate the need for
> --with-md5-passwords. There is an sshd configuration file in
> /etc/pam.d which was copied from the contrib area and is identical
> to one that worked before.
>
> The only other option used was --with-tcp-wrappers and I believe
> this is configured correctly. In any case, if libwrap was refusing
> me
> access, surely I wouldn't get as far as the password prompt?
>
> Permissions on the /etc/ssh/*.keys files etc are all 600 as are
> those files in my home directory...
>
> Running the client in debug (-v) mode doesn't seem to shed any more
> light on the specific reason for the failure although I'd be happy
> to post it if anyone feels it would be useful.
>
> Can anyone shine any lights here?
>
> Many thanks
cam

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