Re: Password authentication fails

From: Nico Kadel-Garcia (nkadel_at_verizon.net)
Date: 08/04/03 

Date: Sun, 03 Aug 2003 23:11:41 GMT

David B. Held wrote:
> I'm using:
>
> Linux 2.2 (RedHat 6.1)
> OpenSSH 3.5p1
> OpenSSL 0.9.6
> Secure Shell 3.2.0 (on Win98)
>
> I can log into the account through telnet (port 23), but when I try to use
> password authentication with Secure Shell, no go. Public key
> authentication works fine, but I have a user that needs to get in via
> password auth. My sshd_config allows password auth. Any ideas?

Whoah. *PICK* one, either OpenSSH or Secure Shell, if possible. I'd
recommend OpenSSH via CygWin or, perhaps, Putty as a client for a bunch
of consistency reasons.

Also, have your client use "ssh -v" to see what happens.

Last, RedHat 6.1 really isn't being supported anymore. Can you update to
7.3, simply for security and support reasons? That has a quite recent
OpenSSH by default, with any security patches rolled back into it until
RedHat has a chance to really test in newer OpenSSH releases. By
sticking with RedHat 6.x that naver came with any SSH or OpenSSH as a
native release, you've giving up that testing.

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