Hi there --
Thanks for everyone's replies. I do have putty 0.61, and I went ahead
with Matt's suggestion. Once that was done, I logged into the server that
was the subject of my posting, and the false positive did not appear.
-----Original Message-----
From: centos-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:centos-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Matt Iavarone
Sent: Friday, July 22, 2011 10:00 AM
To: CentOS mailing list
Subject: Re: Access denied false positive
On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 9:54 AM, Andy Holt <centos-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> From: centos-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:centos-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Kaplan, Andrew H.
>> Sent: 22/07/2011 14:34
>> To: CentOS mailing list
>> Subject: Access denied false positive
>>
>>
>> Hi there --
>>
>> One of our servers is running the 5.3 32-bit release. When a user logs into
the system via an SSH terminal connection,
>> he first sees an "Access denied" message, and then gets a password prompt. He
is able to enter the password, and
>> log into the system without issue. It appears the error message is a false
positive.
>>
>> A check of the messages and secure log files did not show anything apparent.
What would cause this message to
>> occur?
>
> I get that when I'm using PuTTY with pageant, automatically presenting an ssh
key, which the server I'm connecting to doesn't
> recognise.
>
> Maybe something like that?
>
> Andy
>
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I had a similar issue with PuTTY after upgrading to v 0.61. I
disabled Attempt GSSAPI atuthentication (SSH-2 only) under
Connection>SSH>GSSAPI.
-Matt
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