On Thu 2015-01-15 15:47:33 -0500, Trey Henefield wrote: > debug3: authmethod_lookup keyboard-interactive > debug3: remaining preferred: password > debug3: authmethod_is_enabled keyboard-interactive > debug1: Next authentication method: keyboard-interactive > debug2: userauth_kbdint > debug2: we sent a keyboard-interactive packet, wait for reply > debug2: input_userauth_info_req > debug2: input_userauth_info_req: num_prompts 1 > Password: > debug1: Authentications that can continue: publickey,password,keyboard-interactive > debug2: we did not send a packet, disable method > debug3: authmethod_lookup password > debug3: remaining preferred: > debug3: authmethod_is_enabled password > debug1: Next authentication method: password > root@10.10.2.51's password: > debug2: we sent a password packet, wait for reply > debug1: Authentications that can continue: publickey,password,keyboard-interactive > debug2: we did not send a packet, disable method > debug1: No more authentication methods to try. > Permission denied (publickey,password,keyboard-interactive). > > > In the above output, the first prompt is "Password:". The second prompt is "root@10.10.2.51's password:" The first prompt is a keyboard-interactive prompt; the second prompt is the password prompt. please try again with -oKbdInteractiveAuthentication=no Regards, --dkg PS if possible, you should probably avoid using password authentication for the root account anyway, but that's a sideline to the issue you're seeing here. _______________________________________________ openssh-unix-dev mailing list openssh-unix-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.mindrot.org/mailman/listinfo/openssh-unix-dev