problems logging in from 1.2.2 client to 1.2.1pre24 server

[Phil Karn]

>I found out today that I can log in to both boxes using RSA
>authentication, but login to one of the servers still fails when I try
>to do plain password authentication. The error message is somewhat
>strange.

Try enabling shadow passwords. I had the same problem on my debian linux
systems a while back, and enabling shadow passwords made the problem
go away.

Phil