What would cause keyboard-interactive packet connection close

[Darren Tucker]

Tuc at T-B-O-H.NET wrote:
[...]
> 	FreeBSD 5.X (I don't remember off hand) and it identifies
> as :
> 
> OpenSSH_3.5p1 FreeBSD-20030924, SSH protocols 1.5/2.0, OpenSSL 0x0090704f

The client-side debug that you posted looks like sshd is either crashing 
or killing the connection during keyboard-interactive authentication. 
The problem may lie in sshd or in one of the PAM modules that it's 
configured to use.

You can try forcing password auth ("ssh -o 
PreferredAuthentications=password yourserver") which may work around the 
problem, but it's dependent on your server's configuration.

If you can get on to the server you could check the syslog or, better 
yet, run sshd in debug mode to give you a much better idea of what's 
going on.

Anyway I'm pretty sure FreeBSD had their own keyboard-interactive code 
in versions of that vintage to support PAM so it's unlikely that we will 
be able to help you.  You probably need to seek help from the FreeBSD folks.

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