Hi !
I am trying to access my machine at work with PuTTY (the latest version) and I keep obtaining "access denied"... though, I can connect from any machine running Linux... so... what's wrong in this picture? :)
--> You are using access by password not by key-pairs, are you ? I had a similar problem: connection with PuTTY or the SSH.COM Win-Client with password don't work but it works with secret key. With a Linux client both method works. In my case, it was due to a configuration in /etc/ssh/sshd_config where I had a combination of: # To disable tunneled clear text passwords, change to no here! PasswordAuthentication no # Set this to 'yes' to enable PAM authentication (via # challenge-response) and session processing. Depending on your PAM # configuration, this may bypass the setting of # 'PasswordAuthentication' UsePAM yes If you put "UsePAM no" then password authentication will not work with Linux client either. So you have two choices: PasswordAuthentication no UsePAM no --> Password authentication will not be possible PasswordAuthentication yes UsePAM no/yes --> Password authentication will work with both Windows and Linux clients. Hope this helps you ! Armin -- Am Hasenberg 26 office: Institut für Atmosphärenphysik D-18209 Bad Doberan Schloss-Straße 6 Tel. ++49-(0)38203/42137 D-18225 Kühlungsborn / GERMANY Email: schoech@iap-kborn.de Tel. +49-(0)38293-68-102 WWW: http://armins.cjb.net/ Fax. +49-(0)38293-68-50