Breakage in X11 over ssh tunnel
Kevin Oberman
oberman at es.net
Thu Mar 4 13:08:35 PST 2004
> From: Randy Bush <randy at psg.com>
> Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2004 13:04:50 -0800
>
> >> i can deal with the -Y or hack my ssh_config. but i have some
> >> windoze users who now seem unable to get in. they whine
> >>
> >>> SSH Secure Shell: "Authentication failed. Most likely the password yo
> >>> supplied was incorrect. The user name might also might be wrong, or the
> >>> account might be disabled."
> >>
> >> any clues?
> >
> > Are they running SSH V2? By default, OpenSSH on FreeBSD only supports
> > V2. If your clients on Windows are not configured to do V2 (or don't
> > have V2 keys), they will fail.
>
> i stopped allowing/supporting v1 about the end of wwii. so that's
> not the problem.
I don't know about the app on Windows, but can it log? Something
equivalent to 'ssh -v'? You might also set up another sshd with -d on a
special port and have someone connect to that and get more detail on why
it's failing.
--
R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
Energy Sciences Network (ESnet)
Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)
E-mail: oberman at es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634
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