I happened to find a bug report about this: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=3564436&group_id=148927&atid=773100
It turns out that when this error occurs, it allows a login with the correct password even if the user or host is blocked. Until this is fixed, this can be worked around by setting "MaxAuthTries" in sshd_config to 1. -- Bill Wohler <woh...@newt.com> aka <bill.woh...@nasa.gov> http://www.newt.com/wohler/ GnuPG ID:610BD9AD -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org