Re: openssh 2.9 and passwords

[Keith Morse <kgmorse mpcu com>]

On Thu, 30 Aug 2001, VeKTeReX wrote:

> I am running openssh 2.9 on all of my RedHat 7.1 boxes
> (8 boxes in total).  These are mostly machines i built
> last week, so they are fresh install and they are just
> basic RedHat installs with the only addition being
> OpenSSH (and OpenSSL as it is required by OpenSSH) and
> occasionally Samba 2.2.1a.
> 
> My problem is this, when i try to ssh into a few of the
> boxes (4 of them to be exact) the passwords do not
> work.  It will ask me for a password for the user i am
> logging in as, i supply it with the correct password,
> and it just asks for the password again, as though it
> were incorrect (it is not, i have tried with several
> accounts and passwords).  Just for the hell of it i
> also tried to ssh from a Win2K box using F-Secure and
> it came up with the same problem, it just reprompts for
> the password.
> 
> What is odd is that i installed OpenSSH in exactly the
> same manner on ALL the boxes.  Nothing was done
> differently that i can see to the boxes that don't work
> as opposed to the boxes that do.  They all have the
> same version of OpenSSH and OpenSSL.
> 
> Any ideas?


I've been thru the same mill on this topic.  The two items I remember are
check permissions on .ssh/id_dsa.pub and authorized_keys2 and you may need
to ssh-keygen as there was something about the format of the keys
generated with openssh 2.5.2.