Re: SSH woes

2007-02-02 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
Don't login as root... It's not good practise, SSH on BSD by default does also not allow for it. Add your normal user to the wheel group, use that to login The top Linux distros screw up a bunch of the ssh_config(5) and sshd_config(5) defaults. ~BAS __

Re: SSH woes

2007-02-02 Thread Jeffrey Belles
On Fri, 2 Feb 2007 18:37:14 +0530, Arindam wrote > I have a Pentium III 733 Mhz box with 512 MB RAM running FreeBSD 6.1. > I also have a second box with Fedora Core 2. I tried connecting to my > FreeBSD box using ssh from my Fedora Core 2 machine. > > # ssh -l root > Password: > Password: > Pass

Re: SSH woes

2007-02-02 Thread cknipe
> # ssh -l root > Password: > Password: > Password: > > It kept asking me for Password: although everytime I put the correct > value. I tried out clearing the .ssh* files in my home directories and > trying to reconnect. None of it worked. Don't login as root... It's not good practise, SSH on B

Re: SSH woes

2007-02-02 Thread Vince
Arindam wrote: > I have a Pentium III 733 Mhz box with 512 MB RAM running FreeBSD 6.1. > I also have a second box with Fedora Core 2. I tried connecting to my > FreeBSD box using ssh from my Fedora Core 2 machine. > > # ssh -l root > Password: > Password: > Password: > > It kept asking me for Pa

Re: SSH woes

2007-02-02 Thread usleepless
Arindam, On 2/2/07, Arindam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have a Pentium III 733 Mhz box with 512 MB RAM running FreeBSD 6.1. I also have a second box with Fedora Core 2. I tried connecting to my FreeBSD box using ssh from my Fedora Core 2 machine. # ssh -l root Password: Password: Password: I

SSH woes

2007-02-02 Thread Arindam
I have a Pentium III 733 Mhz box with 512 MB RAM running FreeBSD 6.1. I also have a second box with Fedora Core 2. I tried connecting to my FreeBSD box using ssh from my Fedora Core 2 machine. # ssh -l root Password: Password: Password: It kept asking me for Password: although everytime I put t

RE: SSH woes

2003-03-17 Thread John Straiton
Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > John Straiton > Sent: Monday, March 17, 2003 2:14 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: SSH woes > > > (Problem solved, still confused as to why it didn't work) >

RE: SSH woes

2003-03-17 Thread John Straiton
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Re: SSH woes

2003-03-17 Thread Edmond Baroud
this doesn't help much :) -> su testuser; env this does -> su - testuser;env Ed. On Mon, 17 Mar 2003 12:50:52 -0500 "John Straiton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > do you have /root/.ssh/config ? > > No. Between both machines, no files exist in any /root/.ssh or ~/.ssh > directory other than kn

RE: SSH woes

2003-03-17 Thread John Straiton
> do you have /root/.ssh/config ? No. Between both machines, no files exist in any /root/.ssh or ~/.ssh directory other than known_hosts which apparently is fine based on the verbose logging. For completeness, I'm including the full root connection verbose log. >if u dont, could u paste your "env

Re: SSH woes

2003-03-17 Thread Edmond Baroud
do you have /root/.ssh/config ? you have skipped this part when pasting your verbose connection with root, I'm just curious. maybe when you're connecting with root, its reading its options from $HOME/.ssh/options + u're specifying -l testuser and from testuser's shell it's reading /etc/ssh/config

RE: SSH woes

2003-03-17 Thread John Straiton
> >I continue to have problems with SSH authentication. The behavior is > >outside the normal I'm used to. Here's what's going on: > > > >I'm trying to ssh from MACHINE1 to MACHINE2 as user "testuser". > > > >Now here's the funny thing: > > > > > >>su > >> > >> > >Password: > >MACHINE1# ssh

SSH woes

2003-03-17 Thread John Straiton
I continue to have problems with SSH authentication. The behavior is outside the normal I'm used to. Here's what's going on: I'm trying to ssh from MACHINE1 to MACHINE2 as user "testuser". Now here's the funny thing: > su Password: MACHINE1# ssh 209.198.xxx.xxx -l testuser Password: Last login: