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Re: [suse-security] Remote Login to SuSE 9.1 via PuTTY / SSH
  • From: Markus Gaugusch <markus@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sun, 19 Dec 2004 12:23:46 +0100 (CET)
  • Message-id: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0412191222590.11199@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
On Dec 19, Philip B Cook <philipbcook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I have previously had a successful installation of SuSE 8.2, to which I
> could connect from a Windows machine running PuTTY using SSH.
> I could logon as root and administer the Linux machine from elsewhere on
> the network.
>
> I have rebuilt the Linux machine and installed SuSE 9.1. (I did not
> upgrade, but installed new).
>
> My windows machine can still establish a connection via PuTTY/ SSH but I
> get the following.
>
> login as: root
> Sent username "root"
> root@linux's password:
> Access denied

Update to the latest version of PuTTY, older versions don't work with SSHD
of SuSE 9.1.

Markus
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