On Fri, 31 Oct 2014 18:25:23 +0000 Beartooth <beartooth@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I'm having troubles getting some PCs to accept their passwords, > either directly to sign in, or over ssh from another machine, or both. > I've even had a situation (more than once) where A would not let me ssh > in from B -- but I could ssh from B to C, and from C to A. > > No matter how carefully I type, watching each finger onto the > next key ; even if I type out the password on another tab (so that I can > inspect it), then cut & paste; I still get this : > > [btth@localhost ~]$ ssh 192.168.1.123 > btth@192.168.1.123's password: > Permission denied, please try again. > btth@192.168.1.123's password: > Permission denied, please try again. > btth@192.168.1.123's password: > Permission denied (publickey,gssapi-keyex,gssapi-with-mic,password). > [btth@localhost ~]$ > > Also my old Dell PowerEdge SC1420 (long since reconfigured to be > a PC with two hard drives, not a server with one and a backup) does not > let me ssh in with userid, but only as root. > > I've also tried a big hammer, revising a set of known hosts. > Sometimes that does the job; but sometimes it does only this : > > [btth@localhost ~]$ nano .ssh/known_hosts > [btth@localhost ~]$ ssh 192.168.1.123 > The authenticity of host '192.168.1.123 (192.168.1.123)' can't be > established. > ECDSA key fingerprint is 36:2e:66:7e:e8:e9:96:ae:37:bd:99:da:38:5b:37:fb. > Are you sure you want to continue connecting (yes/no)? yes > Warning: Permanently added '192.168.1.123' (ECDSA) to the list of known > hosts. > btth@192.168.1.123's password: > Permission denied, please try again. > > .... and so on, till it locks me out for trying too many times. > > Fwiw, at one point I went out and bought a nice brand spanking > new keyboard. No change. Hmmm...more details, kernel, machine, etc. Try rebooting the local machine (I hate to suggest this.) Of course, others may have better ideas. Ranjan ____________________________________________________________ FREE 3D EARTH SCREENSAVER - Watch the Earth right on your desktop! Check it out at http://www.inbox.com/earth -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
