Re: [SOLVED] Help please: how to enable SSH password authentication under FreeBSD 6.2? Solved - but not in an expected way

2007-02-14 Thread Olaf Greve
Hi again, Well as mentioned yesterday, I couldn't let this one go by without at least trying to figure out the real reason, so I experimented somewhat further. The issue of ssh1 vs. ssh2 appears to already be clarified, so I won't go into it again. Yes, indeed. I myself yesterday came to

Re: [SOLVED] Help please: how to enable SSH password authentication under FreeBSD 6.2? Solved - but not in an expected way

2007-02-13 Thread Olaf Greve
Hi all, To cut to the chase, I 'solved' the issue, or rather, the mystery around it at least, but the 'solution' was not quite as expected. I tried both suggestions given. Firstly: It rather looks like putty is checking the server key with the older one (you mentioned you reinstalled the

Re: [SOLVED] Help please: how to enable SSH password authentication under FreeBSD 6.2? Solved - but not in an expected way

2007-02-13 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Olaf Greve [EMAIL PROTECTED]: To cut to the chase, I 'solved' the issue, or rather, the mystery around it at least, but the 'solution' was not quite as expected. I tried both suggestions given. Firstly: It rather looks like putty is checking the server key with the

Re: [SOLVED] Help please: how to enable SSH password authentication under FreeBSD 6.2? Solved - but not in an expected way

2007-02-13 Thread Olaf Greve
Hi Bill, I'm not seeing this. I tried this with PuTTY 0.58 on a fresh FreeBSD 6.2p1 system and had no problems. So I grabbed the latest PuTTY 0.59, and that worked fine as well. [...] I haven't been following this thread, so I don't have any ideas on what your problem might be, but it's

Re: [SOLVED] Help please: how to enable SSH password authentication under FreeBSD 6.2? Solved - but not in an expected way

2007-02-13 Thread Olaf Greve
Hi again, I must ammend a technically incorrect thing that I wrote previously: Is this what you tried too, or did you use SSH2 (i.e. key authentication, instead of password authentication)? Both SSH1 and SSH2 can use password authentication, so I incorrectly wrote that PuTTY does not fall

Re: [SOLVED] Help please: how to enable SSH password authentication under FreeBSD 6.2? Solved - but not in an expected way

2007-02-13 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Olaf Greve wrote: The issue is that PuTTY does not fall back from its SSH2 attempt to SSH1 (with password authentication), as is what I specified in my /etc/ssh/sshd_config Is this what you tried too, or did you use SSH2 (i.e. key authentication, instead of password authentication)?

Re: [SOLVED] Help please: how to enable SSH password authentication under FreeBSD 6.2?

2007-02-12 Thread Irsla
Olaf Greve wrote: Hi guys, The question: I recall having had this issue before, and I *think* the resolution was to enable PAM authentication or so outside of /etc/ssh/sshd_config. I thought to recall that I either did this in rc.conf (or the defaults for that), or in the custom