Brian McCann wrote:
Hi all. On 5.3 and 5.3 RC1 I have this problem where when I ssh in using either a FreeBSD 4.3 box or an older PuTTY client (0.52 is one I experienced it with), I cannot connect. On PuTTY, it asks for a username, then just exits. On FreeBSD when I put the ssh client into verbose, it appears it can't agree on an auth method, even though both are set to accept and attempt keyboard-interactive. Upgrading to a newer PuTTY fixed the problem, and it seams to work from FreeBSD 4.10. I've seen some posts from people that upgrading their PuTTY fixed the problem, but I'm curious if anyone knows the cause of the problem, and possibly how to fix it, on the server end.
Thanks, --Brian McCann _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
For what it's worth, we happen to have some licensed copies of the commercial SSH client (from SSH Communications Inc.) for our Windows boxes. I just tried to reproduce this problem. To ssh into *nix workstations, I've always just used password authentication.
On the commercial windows client, after you specify the hostname and username, you pick from a drop-down list Authentication Method:
-Password
-Public Key
-SecureID
-PAM
-Keyboard Interactive
I have ALWAYS just used password to get into my Linux and FreeBSD workstations running sshd. But password no longer works. I started to get nervous, but relaxed when I found out that if I selected "Keyboard Interactive", I could get in.
I don't understand what exacactly "keyboard interactive" is and how it differs from "password", but it seems to work.
I haven't used PuTTY in a few years, and I don't know if this is something that can be tweaked or not.
Cheers, DW
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