Hi there -- Thanks for everyone's replies. I do have putty 0.61, and I went ahead with Matt's suggestion. Once that was done, I logged into the server that was the subject of my posting, and the false positive did not appear.
-----Original Message----- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Matt Iavarone Sent: Friday, July 22, 2011 10:00 AM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] Access denied false positive On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 9:54 AM, Andy Holt <centos-l...@orgdotuk.org.uk> wrote: >> From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Kaplan, Andrew H. >> Sent: 22/07/2011 14:34 >> To: CentOS mailing list >> Subject: [CentOS] Access denied false positive >> >> >> Hi there -- >> >> One of our servers is running the 5.3 32-bit release. When a user logs into the system via an SSH terminal connection, >> he first sees an "Access denied" message, and then gets a password prompt. He is able to enter the password, and >> log into the system without issue. It appears the error message is a false positive. >> >> A check of the messages and secure log files did not show anything apparent. What would cause this message to >> occur? > > I get that when I'm using PuTTY with pageant, automatically presenting an ssh key, which the server I'm connecting to doesn't > recognise. > > Maybe something like that? > > Andy > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS@centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > I had a similar issue with PuTTY after upgrading to v 0.61. I disabled Attempt GSSAPI atuthentication (SSH-2 only) under Connection>SSH>GSSAPI. -Matt _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos The information in this e-mail is intended only for the person to whom it is addressed. If you believe this e-mail was sent to you in error and the e-mail contains patient information, please contact the Partners Compliance HelpLine at http://www.partners.org/complianceline . If the e-mail was sent to you in error but does not contain patient information, please contact the sender and properly dispose of the e-mail. _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
