SSH tunneling to FreeBSD 6.x using entunnel ...

[Lowell Gilbert]

"Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy at hub.org> writes:

> I have a client that has been using entunnel for the longest time to
> do an SSH tunnel into their vServer ... we've recently begun upgrading
> to FreeBSD 6.x, and entunnel is no longer working (upgraded from
> FreeBSD 4.x) ...
>
> Apparenty, bitvise.com's tunnelier has the same problem ...
>
> The way the client describes how entunnel used to work for them:
>
> "entunnel was great - i never had to think about it. it just worked,
> all the time, automatically - came up at startup as a service and just
> sat in the system tray."
>
> Without having to downgrade their OpenSSH to the same version as was
> on FreeBSD 4.x (bad option!), is there something that I can look at on
> the FreeBSD 6.x OpenSSH to fix the problem?  Maybe some backwards
> compatibility mode?

I don't know those particular Windows clients, but maybe they want
your sshd_config to enable PasswordAuthentication?