Re: sshd: public key working, but can't get passwords working

[Daniel Griscom <griscom at suitable dot com>]

At 8:36 AM -0500 7/30/07, Michael Hipp wrote:
> Daniel Griscom wrote:
> > 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).
>
> I thought you were trying to use public/private 
> key authentication, not password authentication?

Sorry: public key works, and is great, but I'd 
also like the option of password authentication, 
and sshd always refuses my password.

> If so, then the first line above needs to be 
> uncommented and changed to 'no'.  (Remember to 
> keep a session open while you're testing 
> changes, and any changes won't become "live" 
> until sshd is restarted on the host.)
>
> I think you said you were using authorized_keys2 
> as the public key file, try using 
> ~/authorized_keys (note the missing '2').

Has authorized_keys supplanted authorized_keys2? 
(I've always used the latter, and it's working in 
this situation, but perhaps I'm accumulating bad 
juju...)


Thanks,
Dan

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