On Thu, Nov 18, 2004 at 12:30:05AM -0500, Ivan Georgiev wrote: > Hi, > > I am running RELEASE-5-3 and tried to ssh to my machine (sshd is running). It > asks me 3 times for my password and then quits. The output is shown below. > However, if I try "ssh localhost" instead of the ip address (I am using a DSL > connection) everyting is OK.
[--- snip ---] > The message from sshd is: > > sshd[41578]: error: PAM: authentication error for XXXX from YYY.verizon.net The default behaviour for sshd now is to not allow password authentication. The Password: prompts you see are for the PAM keyboard-interactive authentication method. To allow straight password authentication, change this line in /etc/ssh/sshd_config: #PasswordAuthentication no to this: PasswordAuthentication yes Note the removal of `#'! and then: # /etc/rc.d/sshd restart If you want to use public key authentication, then try your session again but with two or even three `-v' flags to get more debugging messages. This should give you more idea of what's going on. HTH Dan -- Daniel Bye PGP Key: ftp://ftp.slightlystrange.org/pgpkey/dan.asc PGP Key fingerprint: 3B9D 8BBB EB03 BA83 5DB4 3B88 86FC F03A 90A1 BE8F _ ASCII ribbon campaign ( ) - against HTML, vCards and X - proprietary attachments in e-mail / \
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