Fedora Core 3 (openssh-server 3.9p1-7) has started giving me the same strange behaviour as Mandrake:
MaxAuthTries 1
> ssh george@xxxxxxxxx
Received disconnect from 127.0.0.1: 2: Too many authentication failures for george
ie before I can enter a password!
If I set: MaxAuthTries 2
> ssh georgeh@xxxxxxxxx
george@xxxxxxxxx's password:
Received disconnect from 127.0.0.1: 2: Too many authentication failures for george
ie one attempt.
I have restarted the sshd server at each config change, and I haven't been drinking, either!
:)
Obviously, this ambiguity of MaxAuthTries is a "characteristic" of openssh-server 3.9p1-7
I've got an FC3 box here - I'll have a play with it tomorrow with some debug output just to make sure it's not something silly I'm doing.
-- Andy Armstrong, hexten.net
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