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Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2007 09:25:06 -0400
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From: Daniel Griscom <griscom AT suitable DOT com>
Subject: Re: sshd: public key working, but can't get passwords working
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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).


Thanks,
Dan

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