5.3 SSH Unable to authenticate

[Lowell Gilbert]

scott renna <flexble2547 at yahoo.com> writes:

> 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.

Configure SecureCRT to use keyboard-interactive authentication.  
I believe you can configure sshd to accept old-style password
authentication, but since SecureCRT supports the more secure 
approach, it would be better to use that.