Have installed openssh-2.9p1 on a Debian Potato. Potato unfortunately only
offers OpenSSH-1.2.3 - which I installed and it works fine, for what it
does. 2.9p1 (compiled from tar) rejects the passwords of both normal users
and root with "Permission denied", and auth_log has sshd reporting "Failed
password". Adding an sshd file under /etc/pam.d, as per Red Hat installs,
doesn't fix the problem. The sshd_config files for 2.9p1 and 1.2.3 have
precisely the same stuff turned on regarding authentication. The ssh client
in all trials is from OpenSSH_2.3.0p1.
There must be something obvious? If there is, thanks for the pointer, and
maybe it should go in the FAQ?
Or does Debian have something perverse in pam that's choking this?
Whit
