Re: "Unable to authenticate using any of the configured authentication methods?" to Debian

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Date: 09/26/04

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    Date: 26 Sep 2004 09:12:54 GMT
    
    

    In article <LLudnS0OO6oC2MvcRVn-gA@mminternet.net>, ANTant@zimage.com wrote:

    >> You may need to enable keyboard-interactive authentication in SecureCRT
    >> or PasswordAuthentication on the server (but beware that the latter will
    >> *not* use PAM on Debian's current version of sshd).
    >
    >I set "yes" for PasswordAuthentication line. It didn't seem to help.

    >Sorry if I sound like a newbie. I am since PAM and other stuff are
    >over my head. I am just a user from Red Hat days. I don't even know what
    >PAM does or if that is any use for home usage. :)

    You can do without PAM.
    PAM has been in Red Hat since about 5.0, 1998, from memory.

    If this is reachable from the Internet accepting passwords
    as the sole authenticator may be a problem - someone might
    guess it.

    -- 
    Elvis Notargiacomo  master AT barefaced DOT cheek
    http://www.notatla.org.uk/goen/
        7.031: OnACPower returned value( 0x1 ) which is Equal To 0x1
    

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