Re: sshd: public key working, but can't get passwords working

[Michael Hipp <Michael at Hipp dot com>]

Daniel Griscom wrote:
> 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).

I thought you were trying to use public/private key authentication, not 
password authentication?

If so, then the first line above needs to be uncommented and changed to 
'no'.  (Remember to keep a session open while you're testing changes, 
and any changes won't become "live" until sshd is restarted on the host.)

I think you said you were using authorized_keys2 as the public key file, 
try using ~/authorized_keys (note the missing '2'). That would be 
something like:

  /home/daniel/.ssh/authorized_keys

Or whatever username you're trying to login to.

Michael

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