> I fink i broked my sshd - 3.4 compiled OK, and I installed and stoped > and restarted the service. But I connected to my home machine and > tried to SSH back into my server and it keeps knocking back my > passwords - i've tried everything (even made sure caps lock is off) > what have I done?
Try using a few -v flags to ssh when you try to connect so that the client shows you what steps it is going through until it fails. I'd guess that you didn't configure it to use MD5 passwords and/or PAM and your machine requires that. Alternatively, try using -P (to not use a priv. port on the client) since a few people have seen that cause a problem in the last release or two. Whilst this is too late this time, it is good practice when updating ssh to run the new server on a non-standard port or to run the original server on a different port (e.g. sshd -p 5555) before restarting on the normal port so that you can still connect to the machine if the new version doesn't work. So you can test the new server (or connect to the original server) with ssh -p 5555. Martin -- Martin McCarthy /</ http://www.non-prophet.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] \>\ http://www.ancient-scotland.co.uk /</ http://www.ehabitat.demon.co.uk -------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.lug.org.uk http://www.linuxportal.co.uk http://www.linuxjob.co.uk http://www.linuxshop.co.uk --------------------------------------------------------------------
