Re: [TCLUG:15482] OpenSSH

["Thomas T. Veldhouse" <veldy@veldy.net>]

Is the default authentication set to RSA instead of text?  You will have to
have exchanged RSA keys to make it work - or change the authentication
mechanism

/usr/local/etc/ssh_config (I took this from my FreeBSD server (3.4) and
everything is commented - and works)

# This is ssh client systemwide configuration file.  This file provides
# defaults for users, and the values can be changed in per-user
configuration
# files or on the command line.

# Configuration data is parsed as follows:
#  1. command line options
#  2. user-specific file
#  3. system-wide file
# Any configuration value is only changed the first time it is set.
# Thus, host-specific definitions should be at the beginning of the
# configuration file, and defaults at the end.

# Site-wide defaults for various options

# Host *
#   ForwardAgent yes
#   ForwardX11 yes
#   RhostsAuthentication yes
#   RhostsRSAAuthentication yes
#   RSAAuthentication yes
#   PasswordAuthentication yes
#   FallBackToRsh yes
#   UseRsh no
#   BatchMode no
#   CheckHostIP yes
#   StrictHostKeyChecking no
#   IdentityFile ~/.ssh/identity
#   Port 22
#   Cipher blowfish
#   EscapeChar ~


----- Original Message -----
From: Adam Maloney <adam@iexposure.com>
To: <tclug-list@mn-linux.org>
Sent: Monday, April 03, 2000 2:23 PM
Subject: [TCLUG:15482] OpenSSH


> So I'm standardizing all of our servers and workstations to OpenSSH.  I
> have 2 questions.
>
> First, when I install openssh I have to run ssh-keygen to create the
> server keys.  It asks me for a passphrase.  What is this passphrase used
> for?  It apparently happens after the key is generated.  Does it matter
> if I enter one or not?  It says I can just leave it blank, and if I do
> it doesn't complain.
>
> Also, I've installed it on about 10 machines so far and it's worked
> flawlessly.  No problems with any of them.  Now I'm installing it on one
> more server, similar configuration to the others (Slack-7) and there are
> no problems during compile, but when I ssh in after doing keygen and
> running sshd, it says "Permission denied, please try again".  I tried it
> with many different accounts, I know it's not an incorrect password
> problem.  When I look at the message logs it says Failed password for
> <user> from <ip>
>
>
> I have no idea how to trace the problem back.  Anyone seen this?
>
> --
> Adam Maloney
> Systems Administrator
> Internet Exposure, Inc.
>
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