Cheryl, That worked! I always knew you were pretty smart. The source machine is indeed a new Debian install on the new computer. The target machine is my old Redhat install on an old computer. I want to use that machine to receive mail, for backups, etc. Thanks to everyone who helped in solving this problem, especially to Janina. John On Fri, 8 Oct 2004, Cheryl Homiak wrote: > If this is your debian machine you are sshing from, it would be a new > installation and new computer, correct? > Sorry if this has been covered before, but it seems to me that if there > are no authentication methods to try (I'm not sure whether you included > the part that showed what methods had been tried), there's a good chance > your password authentication is disabled in the RH machine's ssh_config or > sshd_config or somewhere. Otherwise, it should ask for your password once > all other > methods have been tried. can we assume you are the same user on both > machines--you're sshing as jboyer (or whatever) on one machine to the same > username on the other machine? > I just went back and looked at your other posts, and the one that shows > your sshd config shows password authentication as no. Unless you changed > it, that's why you're not being prompted for a password. I believe that is > in both the ssh_config and the sshd_config so check both; I think the > debian machine's is usually set to yes by default but you might want to > check them too. > Sorry if I missed a post and this has already been taken care of. > > > -- John J. Boyer; Executive Director, Chief Software Developer Computers to Help People, Inc. http://www.chpi.org 825 East Johnson; Madison, WI 53703 _______________________________________________ Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list