5.3 SSH Unable to authenticate

[cape canaveral]

On Mon, 22 Nov 2004 08:34:06 -0800 (PST), scott renna
<flexble2547 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hello list,
> 
> Had a concern regarding sshd on a freshly built and
> cvsuped 5.3 box.  Here's whats going on.  Whenever I
> try to ssh to the system from a Windows client, my
> system accepts the FreeBSD SSH key, but then cannot
> authenticate.
> 
> This is the message received from SecureCRT:
> 
> SecureCRT has disconnected from the server. Reason:
> Unable to authenticate using any of the configured
> authentication methods.
> 
> I checked SecureCRT's configuration and it is as it
> was when I was running 5.2.  I had no issues sshing.
> I took at look at /etc/ssh/sshd_config and the section
> entitled Authentication, and here's what is shown on
> line 38:
> 
> #Authentication:
> 
> #LoginGraceTime 2m
> 
> Is it odd for there to be nothing under
> Authentication?  I don't have a 5.2 box to take a look
> at to view its sshd_config file.
> 
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It's trying to authenticate with keys instead of password.  You can
change this in sshd_config.  Check the comments; I don't have access
to a 5.3 box either at the moment.

-Aaron