Hi Openssh support, I have upgraded openssh from 5.3p1 to 6.2p2 in a RHEL 6.6 - 64 bit server and now i can't login to server remotely using same root password. It always prompting the password saying "Permission denied, please try again." Please help me to resolve the issue. Following are the steps i have followd. ---------------------------------------------------------------- [root@test ~]# ssh -V OpenSSH_5.3p1, OpenSSL 1.0.1e-fips 11 Feb 2013 [root@test ~]# cat /etc/redhat-release Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6.6 (Santiago) [root@test ~]# rpm -qa |grep openssh openssh-server-5.3p1-104.el6.x86_64 openssh-clients-5.3p1-104.el6.x86_64 openssh-5.3p1-104.el6.x86_64 yum install rpm-build yum install gcc glibc-devel pam-devel libX11-devel krb5-devel zlib-devel yum install openssh-devel openssl-devel tcp_wrappers-devel libXt-devel imake gtk2-devel wget http://ftp.spline.de/pub/OpenBSD/OpenSSH/portable/openssh-6.2p2.tar.gz wget http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/repo/pkgs/openssh/x11-ssh-askpass-1.2.4.1.tar. gz/8f2e41f3f7eaa8543a2440454637f3c3/x11-ssh-askpass-1.2.4.1.tar.gz tar zxvf openssh-6.2p2.tar.gz cp openssh-6.2p2/contrib/redhat/openssh.spec . rpmbuild -bb openssh.spec cp x11-ssh-askpass-1.2.4.1.tar.gz /root/rpmbuild/SOURCES/ cp openssh-6.2p2.tar.gz /root/rpmbuild/SOURCES/ cp openssh.spec /root/rpmbuild/SOURCES/ rpmbuild -bb openssh.spec cd /root/rpmbuild/RPMS/x86_64/ rpm -Uvh * /etc/init.d/sshd restart [root@test ~]# rpm -qa |grep openss openssl-devel-1.0.1e-30.el6_6.4.x86_64 openssh-server-6.2p2-1.x86_64 openssl-1.0.1e-30.el6_6.4.x86_64 openssh-askpass-gnome-6.2p2-1.x86_64 openssh-debuginfo-6.2p2-1.x86_64 openssh-6.2p2-1.x86_64 openssh-clients-6.2p2-1.x86_64 [root@plutotest .ssh]# ssh -v root@192.168.0.38 OpenSSH_5.3p1, OpenSSL 1.0.0-fips 29 Mar 2010 debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh/ssh_config debug1: Applying options for * debug1: Connecting to 192.168.0.38 [192.168.0.38] port 22. debug1: Connection established. debug1: permanently_set_uid: 0/0 debug1: identity file /root/.ssh/identity type -1 debug1: identity file /root/.ssh/identity-cert type -1 debug1: identity file /root/.ssh/id_rsa type -1 debug1: identity file /root/.ssh/id_rsa-cert type -1 debug1: identity file /root/.ssh/id_dsa type -1 debug1: identity file /root/.ssh/id_dsa-cert type -1 debug1: Remote protocol version 2.0, remote software version OpenSSH_6.2 debug1: match: OpenSSH_6.2 pat OpenSSH* debug1: Enabling compatibility mode for protocol 2.0 debug1: Local version string SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_5.3 debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEXINIT sent debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEXINIT received debug1: kex: server->client aes128-ctr hmac-md5 none debug1: kex: client->server aes128-ctr hmac-md5 none debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEX_DH_GEX_REQUEST(1024<1024<8192) sent debug1: expecting SSH2_MSG_KEX_DH_GEX_GROUP debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEX_DH_GEX_INIT sent debug1: expecting SSH2_MSG_KEX_DH_GEX_REPLY debug1: Host '192.168.0.38' is known and matches the RSA host key. debug1: Found key in /root/.ssh/known_hosts:9 debug1: ssh_rsa_verify: signature correct debug1: SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS sent debug1: expecting SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS debug1: SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS received debug1: SSH2_MSG_SERVICE_REQUEST sent debug1: SSH2_MSG_SERVICE_ACCEPT received debug1: Authentications that can continue: publickey,gssapi-with-mic,password debug1: Next authentication method: gssapi-with-mic debug1: Unspecified GSS failure. Minor code may provide more information Cannot determine realm for numeric host address debug1: Unspecified GSS failure. Minor code may provide more information Cannot determine realm for numeric host address debug1: Unspecified GSS failure. Minor code may provide more information debug1: Unspecified GSS failure. Minor code may provide more information Cannot determine realm for numeric host address debug1: Next authentication method: publickey debug1: Trying private key: /root/.ssh/identity debug1: Trying private key: /root/.ssh/id_rsa debug1: Trying private key: /root/.ssh/id_dsa debug1: Next authentication method: password root@192.168.0.38's password: debug1: Authentications that can continue: publickey,gssapi-with-mic,password Permission denied, please try again. root@192.168.0.38's password: ---------------------------------------------------------------- Regards, Chandra Kumara, SSA ShipXpress. 2315 Beach Blvd - Suite 104 || Jacksonville Beach, FL 32250 phone: +94 11 2826814/15 || website: <http://www.shipxpress.com/> http://www.shipxpress.com _______________________________________________ openssh-unix-dev mailing list openssh-unix-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.mindrot.org/mailman/listinfo/openssh-unix-dev