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Re: ssh on sparc with md5 passwords ?



On Wed, Feb 11, 2004 at 03:17:44PM +0100, Dr. Zimmermann wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I've recently installed woody (3.0r2) on one of our older sparc stations
> (sparc10). The machine is
> equipped with a minimalistic system and ssh. Problems occur while
> connecting from
> other hosts or from the sparc itself:
> 
> ssh myhost
> ...
> Permission denied (publickey,keyboard-interactive).
> 
> The problem seems to arise from the fact, that the sparc is configured
> using md5 passwords - but the ssh server
> is not compiled appropriately ( i.e. NOT with configure
> --with-md5-passwords).
> 

The sshd server doesn't need to know about md5 passwords, since the
normal crypt() call in libc can handle it. Your problem is coming from
something else.

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