On Wed, Jun 16, 2004 at 05:43:32PM +0200, Frank Niedermann wrote:
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>
> If I try to use 'x' as wrong password, ssh won't let me in:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]'s password:
> Permission denied (publickey,password,keyboard-interactive).
>
> Just as I would expect it. If I use a longer or similar password as the
> real root password, ssh will let me log in, example:
> real root password = linux4me -> success :)
> fake root password = fun4linux -> success! :(
>
> The ssh package version:
> ii ssh 3.8p1-3 Secure rlogin/rsh/rcp replacement (OpenSSH)
>
> Any idea about that behavor?
Do you have public keys installed on that server? If you have a key with
one password which is different from root's password on that machine, it
can explain this behavior.
HTH.
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