On Wed, Nov 08, 2000 at 05:52:33PM -0700, Ed Aronyk wrote:
> Hey all,
>
> I have a bit of an odd problem, and would appreciate any suggestions you may
> have. I'm running linux, using the 2.2.17 kernel, and I installed the portable
> release (openssh-2.3.0p1.tar.gz) of OpenSSH. The installation went perfectly
> well, and I had previously installed a recent version of OpenSSL.
>
> I have no problem connecting to other boxes with the SSH client, but I can't
> connect to my own box. sshd is running, I generated host keys, and ran
> ssh-keygen on the account I'm trying to login as. When I try "ssh
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]" it asks for [EMAIL PROTECTED]'s password, which I
> enter, but it says "Permission denied, please try again.". No matter how many
> times I try, it never works.
>
> When I try with the -v flag, everything looks fine, and it just says "debug:
> Doing password authentication" before asking the password, there are no debug
> messages after it denies permission.
>
> I think I generated my keys correctly, and I can't really think where I went
> wrong - is there a config option I need to set in order to allow remote logins?
With Openssh, this is symptomatic of disallowing password
authentication. Check that you have
PasswordAuthentication yes
in /etc/ssh/ssh_config, /etc/ssh/sshd_config, and ~/.ssh/config (assuming
you have the latter).
>
> I wouldn't be suprised if there's something simple that I missed, although I
> did look over the archives for this list, and check the documentation, and
> found nothing. I would be grateful if anyone could provide me with a solution
> to this annoying problem.
>
> Thanks,
> -Edward Aronyk
> ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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