CANNOT SSH to my computer

[Daniel Bye]

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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