Failed password

[Paul Thomas]

On Wed, 29 Mar 2000, Damien Miller wrote:

> The easiest way to get verbose debugging is to run sshd in debug
> mode:
> 
> ssh -d -p 2222
> 
> Will start a sshd in the foreground with all logs going to stderr
> listening on port 2222. You can then connect to it with:
> 
> ssh -p 2222 localhost 

Thanks Damien,

I took your suggestion and the error message is still the
same basically. Here is what happens:

[root at chime etc]# /usr/local/sbin/sshd -d -p 2222
debug: sshd version OpenSSH-1.2.3
debug: Bind to port 2222 on 0.0.0.0.
Server listening on 0.0.0.0 port 2222.
Generating 768 bit RSA key.
RSA key generation complete.
debug: Server will not fork when running in debugging mode.
Connection from 127.0.0.1 port 1053
debug: Client protocol version 1.5; client software version OpenSSH-1.2.3
debug: Sent 768 bit public key and 1024 bit host key.
debug: Encryption type: 3des
debug: Received session key; encryption turned on.
debug: Installing crc compensation attack detector.
debug: Attempting authentication for paul.
Failed password for paul from 127.0.0.1 port 1053
Failed password for paul from 127.0.0.1 port 1053


[paul at chime paul]$ ssh -p 2222 localhost
paul at localhost's password:
Permission denied, please try again.
paul at localhost's password:
Permission denied, please try again.
paul at localhost's password: 


Also, I don't know if it is related, but if I try to login
via openssh to the localhost machine by hostname or other
hosts with a working sshd in place, I get the following 
error message that gets stuck in a loop:

[paul at chime paul]$ ssh chime.cuenet.com
The authenticity of host 'chime.cuenet.com' can't be established.
Key fingerprint is 1024 5c:cf:16:4c:34:80:32:bd:e5:05:2f:1e:a5:fe:08:7e.
Are you sure you want to continue connecting (yes/no)? n
The authenticity of host 'chime.cuenet.com' can't be established.
Key fingerprint is 1024 5c:cf:16:4c:34:80:32:bd:e5:05:2f:1e:a5:fe:08:7e.
Are you sure you want to continue connecting (yes/no)? n
The authenticity of host 'chime.cuenet.com' can't be established.
Key fingerprint is 1024 5c:cf:16:4c:34:80:32:bd:e5:05:2f:1e:a5:fe:08:7e.
Are you sure you want to continue connecting (yes/no)? n
The authenticity of host 'chime.cuenet.com' can't be established.
Key fingerprint is 1024 5c:cf:16:4c:34:80:32:bd:e5:05:2f:1e:a5:fe:08:7e.
Are you sure you want to continue connecting (yes/no)? 


Maybe Openssh is not ready for the production environment?

Thanks,

--Paul T.




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