On 01/23/16 07:23, Tom Horsley wrote: > If I try to login to a fedora 23 virtual machine as root, > I get rejected because of "too many authentication failures" > (or something like that, I don't remember the precise > wording). > > I'm running an agent, but none of the keys in the agent > would allow a root login so I expect it to fallback > to a password prompt, but I get the failure instead. > > When I then try with this: > > ssh -o PreferredAuthentications=keyboard-interactive,password > > I do indeed get a password prompt and can login. > > I suspect I'm suffering from the effects of the > changes in f23 to remove various crypto algorithms > and ssh1 support, etc. But I can't figure out > what the heck is going on. > > Any ideas? I'd love to not have to dig up the > silly long option every time I want to login as root :-).
I tried to replicate this using 2 real F23 systems. I copied my id_rsa.pub on my local system to /root/.ssh/authorized_keys on the remote machine. [egreshko@meimei ~]$ whoami egreshko [egreshko@meimei ~]$ ssh root@acer Last login: Sat Jan 23 07:37:23 2016 from 192.168.1.18 [root@acer ~]# whoami root [root@acer ~]# Is this what's failing for you? -- In reality, some people should stick to running Windows and others should stay away from computers altogether. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
