Re: OpenSSH 3, DEBIAN 2.2 and PAM authentication

["Carsten Nottebohm" <carsten@nottebohm.net>]

>     I've just compiled & installed openssh-3.0p1 on my Debian 2.2 but
>     failed
> to login using root and users' passwords. Password authentication failed
> all the time and it prompted "Permission Denied" on the command line.
> 
>     A message, "Failed password for [user] from ......" was logged in
> auth.log. but i'm sure the password is correct. i wonder if the
> configuration for PAM is incorrect. Below is the content of
> /etc/pam.d/ssh:
> 
> #%PAM-1.0

Looks fine to me.
I think OpenSSH uses /etc/pam.d/sshd (Note the "d" in the end). Try renaming your pam config 
file.

> At this time, I can connect using a DSA Key, but I would also like to
> connect using password...

SSH public key authentication is not handled by pam, sshd does that itself.

MfG,
  Carsten Nottebohm