openssh-unix-dev Digest, Vol 16, Issue 9

[Darren Tucker]

Michael selvesteen wrote:
> We tested OpenSSH 3.9 in Hp-UX platforms for Passwordauthentication 
> under PAM modules. We started the SSH Daemon with following settings:
> 
> Usepam yes
> ChallengeResponseAuthentication yes
> passwordauthentication yes
> 
> The client is invoked with ssh -o'Passwordauthentication yes' localhost 
> -vvv. The debug traces shows that the authentication suceed as 
> keyboard-interactive.
> 
> However the expected output should be "password" . Is it so?

For SSHv2 connections, you need to set PreferredAuthentications rather 
than PasswordAuthentication.  By default, PreferredAuthentications will 
try keyboard-interactive before password.

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