On Thu, 2008-05-22 at 07:49 +0100, Alexandros Papadopoulos wrote: > Hi all, thanks for the suggestions so far. > > I talked local staff through backing up the sshd configuration file, > purging the openssh-server package and then reinstalling openssh. > > I'm quite frustrated to say this didn't fix anything. Had exactly the > same behaviour: > > <snip> > debug1: Next authentication method: keyboard-interactive > debug2: userauth_kbdint > debug2: we sent a keyboard-interactive packet, wait for reply > debug1: Authentications that can continue: publickey,keyboard-interactive > debug3: userauth_kbdint: disable: no info_req_seen > debug2: we did not send a packet, disable method > debug1: No more authentication methods to try. > Permission denied (publickey,keyboard-interactive). > > I did two further tests: > > 1. ssh from the box itself to localhost: Same result, permission was > denied, no info_req_seen > 2. tail -f /var/log/auth.log on the server - staff reported no new > entries while I was attempting to login > > Does this mean that we never get to the authentication mechanism? > > I'm quite clueless now, I too was expecting that a purge and reinstall > would fix it. sorry if i'm being dense - did you mv $HOME/.ssh/authorized_keys aside? kk > > -A > > -- Karl Goetz, Debian user / Ubuntu contributor / gNewSense contributor http://www.kgoetz.id.au
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