>>OK. Now though you call it a "session" password, this is just the same >>password that the user has already entered in as "password1" (from below).
>>Right? In this case, they should be able to log in as, say, jean/password1, as you say. This is entered in the winscp fields, ie. testing locally: Host name: 192.168.10.57 Port number: 22 User name: jean Password: password1 > ... if I enter the correct password in the password box, then it >logs me on without any fuss. Yeah, that's how it *should* work. :) > ... if I enter the wrong password in the password box, then it >prompts me for a password (probably what you call the "session" password). Still prompts me, no matter what I enter, right or wrong. I have reset the password on jean several times from the Linux box; then tried reentering the password each time and it still prompts me and denies jean access. >Second, still in Winscp3, check in Advanced Options->Authentication and >make sure "Attempt keyboard-active authentication" and "Respond with >password to the first prompt" are both checked. Checked. >Third, still in Winscp3, check in SSH to make sure SSH2 is the only, or at >least the preferred, connection method. Done. >Last, I've assumed we are in all cases talking about connecting to the same >server. You certainly seem to be saying that. But if I've misunderstood >you ... might there be differences in the sshd implementations between >servers that do and do not prompt for the password? This could be an SSH1 >versus SSH2 issue, for example. My test environment is simply this. I try connecting to a variety of users from my own machine, to the same machine in all cases. So, whereas credentials for 'eve' work, credentials for 'jean' do not. So it's not a client setup issue that I can see...quite possibly the way the user is set up, though how so I can't place. Now, I wondered if the known_hosts problem may clue me into something, but here's my return when I locate known_hosts: /root/.ssh/known_hosts /home/kolt/.ssh/known_hosts /home/eve/.ssh/known_hosts /home/edwin/.ssh/known_hosts /home/navneet/.ssh/known_hosts /home/vaibhav/.ssh/known_hosts This translates to: eve can log in as well as all the others shown here...but so can Gagan, who has no such known_hosts file. So I tried copying one of these known_hosts to /home/keyur/.ssh/known_hosts. When I next try a locate for known_hosts, keyur never actually appears in the listing. /root/.ssh/known_hosts /home/kolt/.ssh/known_hosts /home/eve/.ssh/known_hosts /home/edwin/.ssh/known_hosts /home/navneet/.ssh/known_hosts /home/vaibhav/.ssh/known_hosts ...even when ensuring permissions are set the same as Gagan. - Eve - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
