Tan Soo Hock wrote: > When I tried to SSH from a 'dial-in client' into a remote server, the > authentication process failed with the final message of: > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Authentication that can continue: publickey, password > permission denied (publickey, password) > --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > The public and private was generated with the 'ssh -keygen' and the > public key was copied over to the server. > > could anyone tell me what could have gone wrong? Lots of things could have gone wrong. To find out what actually happened, you will probably need to increase the amount of debug output from sshd. In its default configuration, sshd doesn't usually provide enough information to determine the cause of a login failure. -- Glynn Clements <glynn@sensei.co.uk> - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
