I just deleted my previous installation of Woody and reinstalled, because so many packages had to be updated. Apparently, the default of SSH now disables password authentication on install (in /etc/ssh/sshd_config)
This is something of a problem, because the Windows SSH client of Secure Shell Communications Security Corp (www.ssh.com) can't connect to a default install of SSH on Debian 3.0 without uploading a public key. That's the only client I tested, but I suspect that a lot of other clients won't be able to handle it either. Apparently PAM authentication is supposed to take the place of password authentication (I don't know anything about PAM so I'm not sure this is accurate, please correct me if I'm wrong), but it doesn't seem to work with this client at least At least, I couldn't get it to connect. And I had a lot of trouble finding the problem (that is, that password authentication was disabled) because the previous version didn't disable it by default. Has anyone else noticed this? It could present problems unless a dialog or something is added to the configuration process to inform the user that password authentication is disabled. Also, if someone could explain how PAM authentication should work for SSH, I would appreciate it. -Andrew Gorcester ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
