Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4570 mails)

[Michael James <Michael.James@xxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 1 Nov 2005 07:11 pm, John Andersen wrote:
> On Monday 31 October 2005 10:54 pm, David Robertson wrote:
> > I'm trying to access my SuSE 10 OSS desktop
> > from my Nokia Communicator 9500 mobile 'phone,
> > using PuTTY for symbian, but when I try to log in
> > and am asked for the user password, it is not accepted:

<snip>

>  You need to look carefully at /etc/sshd.config
>  (or wherever it is stored in SySE 10)
>  and make sure that password authentication is turned on,
>  and you probably want challenge-response off.

>  I would only allow ssh2, but thats just me.

While you're editing  /etc/ssh/sshd_config  do turn ssh1 off,
 I have had times when turning ssh1 off on the server
 fixed a "broken" pc that couldn't connect. (SSH-3.2.9.exe)

Not just more secure; more compatible.

michaelj

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