CANNOT SSH to my computer

[Lowell Gilbert]

Ivan Georgiev <georgiev at vt.edu> writes:

> On Thursday 18 November 2004 06:00 pm, Sebastian Holmqvist wrote:
> > On Thu, 18 Nov 2004 17:44:05 -0500, Ivan Georgiev <georgiev at vt.edu> wrote:
> > > On Thursday 18 November 2004 08:42 am, Sebastian Holmqvist wrote:
> > > > 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
> > > > >
> > > > > --
> > > > > Daniel Bye
> > > > >
> > > > > PGP Key: ftp://ftp.slightlystrange.org/pgpkey/dan.asc
> > > > > PGP Key fingerprint: 3B9D 8BBB EB03 BA83 5DB4 3B88 86FC F03A 90A1
> > > > > BE8F _ ASCII ribbon campaign ( ) - against HTML, vCards and  X -
> > > > > proprietary attachments in e-mail / \
> > > >
> > > > Sure you have changed your keymap?
> > > >
> > > > And sorry if I misunderstood, are you trying to ssh to the computer
> > > > you're sitting on?
> > >
> > > I do not think I have done any changes to the keymap. And, yes, I am
> > > trying to connect to the computer I am sitting on plus have tried to
> > > connect from my office computer. In both cases no luck.
> > >
> > > I will appreciate if you can help me to resolve the issue.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > >
> > > Ivan
> 
> 
> 
> > When you connect from the office-computer, what happends?
> 
> As I said - rejects with Permission denied and a message the log:
> sshd[25413]: Failed password for ivan from MY_OFFICE_COMPUTER_ADDRESS port 
> 44517 ssh2

Try "ssh -v" (and if that doesn't tell you enough, "ssh -vv") and look
at the debug output when it asks for and rejects the password.  If that
doesn't give you more of a clue, try doing the equivalent with sshd.