first of all, i would try using the 0.55 version of putty, that might solve your problem

a list of mirrors is available at this address:
http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/download.html

viz

----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Sims" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, September 24, 2004 3:31 PM
Subject: SSH/Putty password problem



Sorry if this is a silly or obvious question, but I've Googled and search the
mailing list archives and cannot find anything relevant.


I'm using PuTTY 0.53b from a Windows 2000 machine to SSH to a Debian Sarge server
running OpenSSH 3.8.1p1-8. The problem I am having is that I am only given one
chance to enter my password correctly. If I mistype it on the first attempt, I am
prompted a second time, but the second attempt will fail regardless of whether I
supply the right password or not.


This problem does not occur if I use the ssh client on the Debian machine ('ssh
localhost'), or the ssh client I have on another Red Hat box I have handy, which
leads me to believe it's a PuTTY issue. However, PuTTY doesn't behave this way when
I ssh to the Red Hat box.


In an effort to troubleshoot this I ran the SSH server in debug mode
(/usr/sbin/sshd -ddd). I can't really tell much from the output, but I find that
with a working SSH client I see this message before each prompt:


Postponed keyboard-interactive for ...

whereas I see the following message before the second prompt when using PuTTY:

Failed keyboard-interactive/pam for ...

Has anyone seen this before? I'd appreciate any insight or pointers... TIA


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