Re: pam/sshd question: allowing a user to try logging in more than once
Michael Sims wrote:
Are your users using PuTTY? For me, the problem only manifests itself with
PuTTY, connecting from every other SSH client I tried gave the expected
behavior (3 password requests).
Actually, that seems to be the case here as well. I mostly use PuTTY,
so I hadn't even tried to connect from another client. Maybe this is a
PuTTY bug, then?
Here's an oddity. When I use OpenSSH's command line client in Cygwin,
there's still a noticeable difference in output between talking to a
Debian server and a Fedora one:
Debian:
Jeremy@jeremy-bexv1nyb:~$ ssh jeremy.brown@debianbox
Password:
Password:
Password:
Permission denied (publickey,keyboard-interactive).
Fedora:
Jeremy@jeremy-bexv1nyb:~$ ssh jeremy.brown@fedorabox
jeremy.brown@fedorabox's password:
Permission denied, please try again.
jeremy.brown@fedorabox's password:
Permission denied, please try again.
jeremy.brown@fedorabox's password:
Permission denied (publickey,password,keyboard-interactive).
Perhaps getting PAM to spit out this extra data would be more, eh,
amiable to PuTTY? It is PAM that generates these "Password:" lines, right?
Maybe someone on comp.security.ssh would have an answer?
I can try. Is comp.security.ssh more general ssh questions, or mostly
OpenSSH-specific? If the former (and no one on debian-user has an
answer), I'm more inclined to move this to OpenSSH, PAM, or PuTTY
user/developer lists.
Thanks,
Jeremy
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