OpenSSH

[dmartin at ne.arris-i.com (Derek Martin)]

On Thu, 20 Jan 2000, Subba Rao wrote:

> 
> Hi,
> 
> I have downloaded OpenSSH and am trying to get it to work. The sshd is
> started in .xinitrc. After logging in, the 'ps' command does list it:
> 
> (0)root at myhost:~ => ps waux | grep ssh root 18615 0.0 0.8 1424 536 ?  
> S Jan19 0:01 sshd -f /usr/local/etc/sshd_config -h
> /usr/local/etc/ssh_host_key
> 
> After that, I am issuing the ssh-agent command. I have tried 2 options.
> 
> $ ssh-agent bash
> $ ssh-agent login

when xterm is killed, it sends its children a SIGHUP.  If you don't want
them to die, start it with nohup, i.e.:

nohup ssh-agent bash.


> When I try to login from NT, using TeraTermPro+TTSSH or Putty, the
> system says invalid password. I have tried the user's Linux password
> and the SSH key passphrase. The system log has the following entry.

It looks like it's looking for the root password, so I assume you're
trying to connect as root, and you are giving it the root password.  If
that's not working, I'd check the sshd_config to see if you are allowing
password authentication.  I'm far from an expert at ssh though, so I don't
know what else it could be.

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-Juvenal, Satires, VI, 347 

Derek D. Martin      |  Senior UNIX Systems/Network Administrator
Arris Interactive    |  A Nortel Company
derekm at mediaone.net  |  dmartin at ne.arris-i.com
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