Re: openssh upgrade breaks login

From: Darren Tucker (dtucker_at_dodgy.net.au)
Date: 01/22/05 

Date: 22 Jan 2005 09:11:55 GMT

In article <%DlId.4968$ry.2411@fed1read05>, Bob Snyder <What@me.worry> wrote:
>I have just upgraded from openssh 3.7.1p1 to 3.9p1 on my Linux box. It
>worked fine before, but now login attempts from localhost or a remote
>machine always returns "Permission denied, please try again". Same
>results for any user, even root.

What Linux distribution and version? "Linux box" doesn't narrow it down
much. How have you got sshd configured (in particular, do you have PAM
enabled)?

>Both 3.7.1 and 3.9 were compiled from source distribution, all defaults
>in configure. Looking at the debug log shows nothing interesting.

Without actually seeing the client and server debug it's kinda hard to tell.

>It's as if I'm typing the wrong password.

wild guess: http://www.openssh.com/faq.html#3.5 

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