Re: SSH/Putty password problem

["vizi0n (debian-user)" <debian-user@vizi0n.com>]

first of all, i would try using the 0.55 version of putty, that might solve 
your problem

a list of mirrors is available at this address:
http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/download.html

viz

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael Sims" <michaels@crye-leike.com>
To: <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Friday, September 24, 2004 3:31 PM
Subject: SSH/Putty password problem


> Sorry if this is a silly or obvious question, but I've Googled and search 
> the
> mailing list archives and cannot find anything relevant.
>
> I'm using PuTTY 0.53b from a Windows 2000 machine to SSH to a Debian Sarge 
> server
> running OpenSSH 3.8.1p1-8.  The problem I am having is that I am only 
> given one
> chance to enter my password correctly.  If I mistype it on the first 
> attempt, I am
> prompted a second time, but the second attempt will fail regardless of 
> whether I
> supply the right password or not.
>
> This problem does not occur if I use the ssh client on the Debian machine 
> ('ssh
> localhost'), or the ssh client I have on another Red Hat box I have handy, 
> which
> leads me to believe it's a PuTTY issue.  However, PuTTY doesn't behave 
> this way when
> I ssh to the Red Hat box.
>
> In an effort to troubleshoot this I ran the SSH server in debug mode
> (/usr/sbin/sshd -ddd).  I can't really tell much from the output, but I 
> find that
> with a working SSH client I see this message before each prompt:
>
> Postponed keyboard-interactive for ...
>
> whereas I see the following message before the second prompt when using 
> PuTTY:
>
> Failed keyboard-interactive/pam for ...
>
> Has anyone seen this before?  I'd appreciate any insight or pointers... 
> TIA
>
>
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