CANNOT SSH to my computer

[Sebastian Holmqvist]

On Thu, 18 Nov 2004 13:26:05 +0000, Daniel Bye
<freebsd-questions at slightlystrange.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 18, 2004 at 07:49:03AM -0500, Ivan Georgiev wrote:
> > I changed PasswordAuthentication to 'yes' and this time it asks me 6
> > times for my password (3 times beginning with "Password:"
> 
> You can disable these first three by changing
> ChallengeResponseAuthentication to no.
> 
> > and another 3 times with "Password for xxxx at yyy.yyy.yyy.yyy) and rejects
> > me again with the same message from sshd.
> 
> Sounds like a silly question, I know, but are you typing your password
> correctly?  For example, is your local keymap sending the right
> characters to the server?
> 
> > Adding more verbosity didn't help me to understand the problem. I also
> > noticed that my ida_dsa.pub key ends with "ivan@" . Usualy I have seen
> > it ending with "someone at some_address_here". Is this a problem?
> 
> No, I don't think so.  It is just a convenient identifier for human
> consumption - it's somewhat easier to use the last little bit of the key
> than to try and remember the whole keyblock!
> 
> Have you copied ida_dsa.pub from the client machine to your
> ~/.ssh/authorized_keys file on the server?
> 
> 
> 
> Dan
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Sure you have changed your keymap?

And sorry if I misunderstood, are you trying to ssh to the computer
you're sitting on?
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Sebastian Holmqvist
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