On Friday, December 23, 2011 10:07:00 AM Daniel Bossert wrote: > On 12/23/2011 04:14 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: > > On Fri, 23 Dec 2011 15:30:16 +0100 > > > > suvayu ali wrote: > >> It would be helpful if you could give more details and say what > >> command you are trying and its output with the verbose flag set like > >> this -vvv. > > > > Yep, the -vvv option on the remote ssh and taking a look at > > /var/log/messages and /var/log/secure should provide details about why > > failure happens. Perhaps the sshd_config file is set to only allow > > public key connections? That would certainly make a password attempt > > fail (and is how I have my server setup for remote connections versus > > local network connections where I do allow passwords). > > Hello > > Here are the outputs: > > Output from the remote machine: > > daniel@saturn:~$ ssh -vvv daniel@172.25.0.1 > OpenSSH_5.5p1 Debian-6+squeeze1, OpenSSL 0.9.8o 01 Jun 2010 <...text deleted...> > [root@merkur ~]# cat /etc/ssh/sshd_config > # $OpenBSD: sshd_config,v 1.82 2010/09/06 17:10:19 naddy Exp $ > > # This is the sshd server system-wide configuration file. See > # sshd_config(5) for more information. > <...text deleted...> > # Set this to 'yes' to enable PAM authentication, account processing, > # and session processing. If this is enabled, PAM authentication will > # be allowed through the ChallengeResponseAuthentication and > # PasswordAuthentication. Depending on your PAM configuration, > # PAM authentication via ChallengeResponseAuthentication may bypass > # the setting of "PermitRootLogin without-password". > # If you just want the PAM account and session checks to run without > # PAM authentication, then enable this but set PasswordAuthentication > # and ChallengeResponseAuthentication to 'no'. > # WARNING: 'UsePAM no' is not supported in Fedora and may cause several > # problems. > #UsePAM no > #UsePAM yes > Could you try "UsePAM yes" without the leading #, as in UsePAM yes > # Accept locale-related environment variables > AcceptEnv LANG LC_CTYPE LC_NUMERIC LC_TIME LC_COLLATE LC_MONETARY > LC_MESSAGES <...text deleted...> > > Kind regards > Daniel -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org