Re: SSH/Putty password problem
Hi Michael,
try to check out /etc/pam.d/ssh if there is any restriction or
misconfiguration
On Fri, 2004-09-24 at 16:31, Michael Sims wrote:
> 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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