Hi people. I'm attempting to set up dropbear ssh on a mac, for testing something.
For some reason, password authentication consistently fails for the account I'm trying: testacct. If I set up RSA authentication for testacct, that works fine, but I need to use a password for the testing. I have OpenSSH set up and running on the same system, so I have dropbear on an alternate port: tcp/2222. If I log into testacct with a password, on tcp/22 (that is, using OpenSSH), things work fine. My dropbear invocation and messages look like: $ /usr/local/sbin/dropbear -p 127.0.0.1:2222 -E -R -F cmd output started 2021 Tue Jul 27 03:41:43 PM PDT [3228] Jul 27 15:41:43 Not backgrounding [3237] Jul 27 15:41:47 Child connection from 127.0.0.1:53525 [3237] Jul 27 15:41:50 Bad password attempt for 'testacct' from 127.0.0.1:53525 [3237] Jul 27 15:41:53 Bad password attempt for 'testacct' from 127.0.0.1:53525 [3237] Jul 27 15:41:55 Exit before auth from <127.0.0.1:53525>: (user 'testacct', 2 fails): Exited normally And from the clients I see: $ ssh -p 2222 testacct@127.0.0.1 testacct@127.0.0.1's password: Permission denied, please try again. testacct@127.0.0.1's password: Permission denied, please try again. testacct@127.0.0.1's password: $ dbclient -p 2222 testacct@127.0.0.1 Host '127.0.0.1' is not in the trusted hosts file. (ssh-ed25519 fingerprint sha1!! 6f:b7:50:8c:82:87:ce:bf:cc:fd:e3:48:63:12:60:9d:39:17:e2:97) Do you want to continue connecting? (y/n) y testacct@127.0.0.1's password: testacct@127.0.0.1's password: testacct@127.0.0.1's password: What do I need to do to get dropbear server to allow password-based authentication? BTW, I am using Dropbear v2020.81 from homebrew on macOS 11.5.1. Thanks!
