On Tue, 2008-05-20 at 08:20 +0100, Alexandros Papadopoulos wrote: > I administer a couple of remote Debian servers and must say the latest > security update has left me stranded. My only access to these machines > was over SSH, using keys. So I logged in the other night and this was > the series of events: > + I enabled password authentication in sshd_config (PasswordAuthentication yes) > + aptitude update && aptitude dist-upgrade, which updated the packages > and restarted the openssh daemon > + shortly thereafter my SSH connection was terminated > + I tried to login to the machine, but never got the chance: > > <snip> > Permission denied (publickey,keyboard-interactive). > > Why does it not give me the opportunity to login via interactive > password authentication? I tried logging in from a windows box with > putty and again got a "no authentication methods available" message > and a dropped connection. I was wondering how long until someone got bitten by this. :( kk > > I've instructed people over the phone to check that hosts.deny is > blank, that denyhosts scripts are stopped, that the openssh daemon is > restarted (after having regenerated its keys)... > > I can't understand what's wrong - would very much like to see a howto > detailing what the upgrade procedure is for people maintaining servers > remotely. > > Cheers > > -A > > -- Karl Goetz, Debian user / Ubuntu contributor / gNewSense contributor http://www.kgoetz.id.au
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