Have you looked at the sshd config file to make sure it's not trying some other auth method first. Just a thought, but what if it was trying to authinticate you via LDAP and your machine key before asking for password? On my system I would start with `vi /etc/openssh/sshd_config`
/B ----- Original Message ----- From: "Steven Lembark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, January 12, 2003 15:37 Subject: Oddity with sshd after installing 8.0 > > Getting: > > Received disconnect from <IP>: 2: Too many authentication failures for root > > from the remote sshd. This happens for any user I try, > even a newly created one. > > Question: > > Any idea why the sshd on RH-8.0 would increment > authctxt->failures before even prompting for a > password? > > History: > > Using ssh for remote system management. I have been in > the system before (i.e., configs seem reasonable and > my *.pub file is available on the remote system). > > System was moved offsite over the weekend for hardware > maintinence; took the maintainer a few tries to get the > SU password input at the console. He finally got it right, > did the maintinence, brought the machine back. > > Now I access the system via ssh and get the nastygram > above. Generating a new user from scratch gives the same > message with the username changed. > > man -k and searching RH's archives get me nothing on this; > nor has grep-ing the unziped manfiles for the message > itself. The message is definatly comming out of sshd: > > $ strings /usr/sbin/sshd | grep 'authentication failures'; > > "Too many authentication failures for %.100s" > > The message is defined as AUTH_FAIL_MSG in auth.h, > and used in auth[12].c as: > > if( authctxt->failures++ > AUTH_FAIL_MAX ) > packet_disconnect( AUTH_FAIL_MSG, authctxt->user ); > > > -- > Steven Lembark 2930 W. Palmer > Workhorse Computing Chicago, IL 60647 > +1 773 252 1080 > > > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
