On Mon, 11 Jun 2007, Zane Gilmore wrote:
> We have an irritating little problem on one of our servers.
>
> Any ssh login ignores the first password entry.
> We have now got into the habit of pressing enter before entering the
> password.
>
> Has anybody ever struck this before?

I have seen it before.

Some versions of ssh don't say what the password is for. It could be that the 
first password entry is a passphrase for an ssh key (either rsa or dsa). Have 
a look in ~/.ssh and see if there is a id_dsa or id_rsa file in the 
directory. 

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Later
Lee Begg

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