SSH & 5.3 Problems

[Rob]

> Brian McCann wrote:
> 
>> Hi all.  On 5.3 and 5.3 RC1 I have this problem where when I ssh in
>> using either a FreeBSD 4.3 box or an older PuTTY client (0.52 is one I
>> experienced it with), I cannot connect.  On PuTTY, it asks for a
>> username, then just exits. On FreeBSD when I put the ssh client into
>> verbose, it appears it can't agree on an auth method, even though both
>> are set to accept and attempt keyboard-interactive.  Upgrading to a
>> newer PuTTY fixed the problem, and it seams to work from FreeBSD 4.10.
>>  I've seen some posts from people that upgrading their PuTTY fixed the
>> problem, but I'm curious if anyone knows the cause of the problem, and
>> possibly how to fix it, on the server end.
> 

Same problem occurred here with other SSH programs for Windows that
connect to FreeBSD PC. When upgrading from 4.10 to 5.3, suddenly the
Windows PCs could not connect anymore , with a similar error as you
get. Upgrading was the solution. I never tried to downgrade the newer
SSH version on FreeBSD to handle old versions; I considered the reverse
a better way :).

Curiously: a nother PC running 4.10 had no problems to connect to 5.3.
Only Windows' SSH programs had such problems.

Rob.