Re: [TCLUG:15482] OpenSSH

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

I had that problem a while back also.  No NIS or PAM.  Normal shadowing.
Oddly, I think I installed ssh1 instead of OpenSSH and it worked fine.  I
suspect default configuration (see my last post).

Tom Veldhouse
veldy@veldy.net

----- Original Message -----
From: "Nate Carlson" <natecars@real-time.com>
To: <tclug-list@mn-linux.org>
Sent: Monday, April 03, 2000 3:16 PM
Subject: Re: [TCLUG:15482] OpenSSH


> On Mon, 3 Apr 2000, Adam Maloney wrote:
>
> > 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?
> >
>
> Could it be a md5/shadow/other problem? Are the passwords NIS by any
> chance?
>
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