Finally found a clue in the old list archives. Debian Potato absolutely
requires "./configure --with-md5-passwords". It does not seem to require
anything like an sshd file in pam.d, oddly. (Does this mean that a stock
Potato install puts a bunch of pam stuff in place but isn't using it?)
At least that's my mileage. I'd strongly suggest that this info belongs in
the README, since there's no recent version of ssh in .deb format listed on
the Debian site, so Potato-heads are definitely compiling from tar for now.
Whit
On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 02:35:45PM -0500, Whit Blauvelt wrote:
> 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
