Bug in CURRENT OpenSSL/sshd?

[Jon Noack]

Forrest Aldrich wrote:
> I use SecureCRT from Windows/XP to connect to my various FreeBSD servers.
> 
> When I updated (twice installed to verify) from FreeBSD-5.2.1 to 
> FreeBSD-CURRENT, I'm no longer able to log in via SecureCRT.  The error 
> indicates there are no authentication methods.
> 
> I've changed my config in SecureCRT to "Keyboard Interactive" which 
> works fine.  This is not a bug with SecureCRT, it is on the sshd side.
> 
> I tried uncommenting PasswordAuthentication in /etc/ssh/sshd_config and 
> that didn't make a difference.
> 
> Wondering if anyone else has seen this problem, as I'd like to narrow 
> this down and get it fixed.

For what it is worth, Keyboard-Interactive is the better choice.  You 
must have missed this when you read UPDATING (you did read UPDATING, 
didn't you? ;-):

20040226:
     Some sshd configuration defaults have changed: protocol version 1
     is no longer enabled by default, and password authentication is
     disabled by default if PAM is enabled (which it is by default).
     OpenSSH clients should not be affected by this; other clients may
     have to be reconfigured, upgraded or replaced.

Uncommenting PasswordAuthentication should restore the previous behavior 
(although the email from des@ said to uncomment protocol version 1 as 
well).  Did you restart sshd before testing?  You might try an 'ssh -v 
hostname' with an OpenSSH client to be sure it is picking up the option. 
  Look for a line like the following:

debug: Authentications that can continue: publickey,keyboard-interactive

With PasswordAuthentication you should also see "password" in there.

Jon Noack