do you have /root/.ssh/config ? you have skipped this part when pasting your verbose connection with root, I'm just curious. maybe when you're connecting with root, its reading its options from $HOME/.ssh/options + u're specifying -l testuser and from testuser's shell it's reading /etc/ssh/config
if u dont, could u paste your "env" output for us here? my 2c. Ed. On Mon, 17 Mar 2003 11:33:09 -0500 "John Straiton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I continue to have problems with SSH authentication. The behavior is > outside the normal I'm used to. Here's what's going on: > > I'm trying to ssh from MACHINE1 to MACHINE2 as user "testuser". > > Now here's the funny thing: > > su > Password: > MACHINE1# ssh 209.198.xxx.xxx -l testuser > Password: > Last login: Mon Mar 17 11:17:05 2003 from chasm > Copyright (c) 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1990, 1991, 1993, 1994 > The Regents of the University of California. All rights > reserved. > > > > Now on the same machine: > >exit > #su testuser > %ssh 209.198.xxx.xxx > Permission denied, please try again. > Permission denied, please try again. > Permission denied (publickey,password,keyboard-interactive). > % > > Why in the world would the login prompted for a password when I'm as > root specifying a login, and then I wouldn't even be prompted for a > password when I'm su'ed as the user? > > I thought at first maybe it was because this account *used to* > auto-login, however if you look at the remote machine's > /home/testuser/.ssh directory, it's empty (ie , no authorized_keys). On > the client machine, it's only got "known_hosts" in there. > > Thoughts? I'm attaching the verbose debug for the client side as the > user & as root > > John Straiton > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Clickcom, Inc > 704-365-9970x101 > > -- Edmond Baroud UNIX Systems Admin mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Fingerprint 140F 5FD5 3FDD 45D9 226D 9602 8C3D EAFB 4E19 BEF9 "UNIX is very user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are." To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
