On 8/13/2019 7:40 PM, Keith Steensma wrote: > > > On 8/13/2019 11:35 AM, Michael Howard wrote: >> On 13/08/2019 16:31, Joe wrote: >>> On Tue, 13 Aug 2019 15:28:04 +0200 >>> <to...@tuxteam.de> wrote: >>> >>>> On Tue, Aug 13, 2019 at 08:23:35AM -0500, Keith Steensma wrote: >>>>> >>>>> On 8/12/2019 4:00 PM, elvis wrote: >>>>>> On 12/8/19 11:23 pm, Keith Steensma wrote: >>>>>>> The same thing happens if I fill in 'root' as the login even >>>>>>> though a 'root' login is not permitted in the default >>>>>>> 'sshd_config' configuration. Even when I change the >>>>>>> configuration to allow for 'root' login, 'root' can never login. >>>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> Try a local ssh login to see if it rules out network problems. As >>>>>> in ssh localhost. or ssh -l <user> localhost. If it is your >>>>>> network getting in the way it may >>>>>> rule that out. >>>>> Yes that works ( ssh -l <user> localhost ). So that means it has to >>>>> do with the network connections. >>>> Not necessarily. It can be the client, too (your PuTTY). You didn't >>>> describe the error message in detail (perhaps it is too unspecific, >>>> GUI clients tend to be like that), but perhaps PuTTY has some >>>> "verbose" option you can activate. Then you may infer whether there's >>>> a hole in the net or whether just client and server don't get along >>>> with each other. >>>> >>> It is some years since I used PuTTY regularly, but I seem to recall >>> that it didn't use OpenSSH-type keys and insisted on generating its own >>> and providing a conversion to an OpenSSH key, which then had to be >>> placed on the server. Is it possible this procedure may have gone amiss >> >> This has happened to me a couple of times. Regenerating and converting >> solved the problem. > It may be wrong, but I'm using putty where putty does not supply a > username or a 'key'. I'm using it just as > a terminal (does someone have an alternate suggestion). I agree, putty > gets along with OpenSSH is a > 'almost' fashion. If you convert your 'key' in the right way. I have > been using mine a long time just because > it takes a while to get it to work correctly. >
I don't understand how you are connecting to your server if you don't use username/pwd or identityfile and what do you mean by "terminal"? In this thread, some putty alternative were suggested if that is what you are asking. -- John Doe
