Package: ssh Version: 1:3.8p1-3 Severity: important Tags: sid It seems that with the latest ssh if you don't have ssh-askpass installed and you don't have an agent running, you get:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] bin]$ ssh metallica ssh_askpass: exec(/usr/bin/ssh-askpass): No such file or directory ssh_askpass: exec(/usr/bin/ssh-askpass): No such file or directory Permission denied, please try again. ssh_askpass: exec(/usr/bin/ssh-askpass): No such file or directory Permission denied, please try again. ssh_askpass: exec(/usr/bin/ssh-askpass): No such file or directory Permission denied (publickey,password,keyboard-interactive). [EMAIL PROTECTED] bin]$ SSH'ing as root (executing ssh as root, that is... doesn't matter what the remote user is) doesn't have this problem. If you install ssh-askpass it will work but uses ask-pass to prompt for your password on a standard ssh, which didn't used to be the behavior, and is kind of obnoxious. If the user has a an agent filled with a key, it works just fine. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.3 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C Versions of packages ssh depends on: ii adduser 3.52 Add and remove users and groups ii debconf 1.4.22 Debian configuration management sy ii dpkg 1.10.20 Package maintenance system for Deb ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-12 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libpam-modules 0.76-19 Pluggable Authentication Modules f ii libpam-runtime 0.76-19 Runtime support for the PAM librar ii libpam0g 0.76-19 Pluggable Authentication Modules l ii libssl0.9.7 0.9.7d-1 SSL shared libraries ii libwrap0 7.6-ipv6.1-3 Wietse Venema's TCP wrappers libra ii zlib1g 1:1.2.1-5 compression library - runtime -- debconf information: * ssh/privsep_tell: ssh/insecure_rshd: ssh/privsep_ask: true ssh/ssh2_keys_merged: * ssh/user_environment_tell: * ssh/forward_warning: ssh/insecure_telnetd: ssh/new_config: true * ssh/use_old_init_script: true * ssh/protocol2_only: true ssh/encrypted_host_key_but_no_keygen: * ssh/run_sshd: true * ssh/SUID_client: false
