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Re: sshd: public key working, but can't get passwords working
At 7:32 PM -0500 7/29/07, René Berber wrote:
Back to the original problem: did you use ssh-user-config? (I guess you did
since you had to copy the public key).
No; I'd thought that ssh-user-config was to
configure an account that was to be an ssh client
(e.g. one within which I'd use ssh to connect to
another machine). I copied the public key from
another workstation from which I've used ssh
public key connections for a number of servers.
What you reported about the log is simple, the password used is not correct...
it should prompt you 3 times and then close the
connection; or the configuration
does not allow password authentication, let's check this last one:
In /etc/sshd_config you should have:
#PasswordAuthentication yes
#PermitEmptyPasswords no
#UsePAM no
All three lines are present and commented out (as above).
Thanks,
Dan
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