On Wed, 22 Feb 2006 02:43 am, Digvijoy Chatterjee wrote:
I am using Suse-10, the ssh login from any linux box is fine, it is logged in the /var/log/messages, besides my firewall is off
however, when i try to connect using a putty client from a windows box, it fails, and repeatedly asks for passwords, until after 6 attempts it disconnects
Most likely, your server is accepting only SSH v2 protocols and your Putty is trying only v1 (possibly vice versa).
and the solution was to comment PasswordAuthentication no as below in /etc/sshd/sshd_config --- # To disable tunneled clear text passwords, change to no here! #PasswordAuthentication no --- Both Protocol 1 & 2 were allowed
I find connections establish MORE reliably with only Protocol 2 allowed. Specifically the SSH client from ssh.com http://ftp.ssh.com/pub/ssh/ssh-3.2.9.1.tar.gz fails with "no more authentication methods" until Protocol 1 support is turned off on the Suse server. FWIW, michaelj -- Michael James michael.james@csiro.au System Administrator voice: 02 6246 5040 CSIRO Bioinformatics Facility fax: 02 6246 5166 No matter how much you pay for software, you always get less than you hoped. Unless you pay nothing, then you get more.