OpenSSH_4.6p1 - Not taking authmethod_Lookup parameter- keyboard-interactive

[rosmi.jose at wipro.com]

Hi,
 
I have the below version of openssh and openssl on solaris 10 machine
(say wcars9bd).
OpenSSH_4.6p1, OpenSSL 0.9.8e 
 
I have the below version of openssh and openssl on solaris 9 machine
(say wcars99q).
OpenSSH_4.3p2, OpenSSL 0.9.8a
 
My concern is there if i initiate a connection to wcars9bd
(OpenSSH_4.6p1, OpenSSL 0.9.8e, Solaris10), I could see that its not
taking the authmethod_Lookup parameter as keyboard-interactive at all. I
see debug3: remaining preferred: ,password. 
 But if i see the connection logs to wcars99q (OpenSSH_4.3p2, OpenSSL
0.9.8a, Solaris9), I could see that first it tries in Pubickey, then
keyboad-interactive mode.  I have read somewhere that for GUI based
applications it needs keyboard interactive mode. I would like to know
whether this is a bug in OpenSSH_4.6p1. Do we have any patch for this?
 
Could you please help me in this?

If i initiate a connection from other server to this server (wcars9bd),
ssh -v -v -v -l root wcars9bd, at the end i could see the debug logs
from ssh as 
debug3: preferred hostbased,publickey,keyboard-interactive,password
debug3: authmethod_lookup publickey
debug3: remaining preferred: keyboard-interactive,password
debug3: authmethod_is_enabled publickey
debug1: Next authentication method: publickey
debug1: Trying private key: /home/rosmi/.ssh/id_rsa
debug3: no such identity: /home/rosmi/.ssh/id_rsa
debug1: Trying private key: /home/rosmi/.ssh/id_dsa
debug3: no such identity: /home/rosmi/.ssh/id_dsa
debug1: Trying private key: /home/rosmi/.ssh/identity
debug3: no such identity: /home/rosmi/.ssh/identity
debug2: we did not send a packet, disable method
debug3: authmethod_lookup password
debug3: remaining preferred: ,password
debug3: authmethod_is_enabled password
debug1: Next authentication method: password
root at wcars9bd's password: 

If i initiate a connection from other server to this server (wcars99q),
ssh -v -v -v -l root wcars9bd, at the end i could see the debug logs
from ssh as 
debug3: preferred publickey,keyboard-interactive,password
debug3: authmethod_lookup publickey
debug3: remaining preferred: keyboard-interactive,password
debug3: authmethod_is_enabled publickey
debug1: Next authentication method: publickey
debug1: Trying private key: /home/rosmi/.ssh/identity
debug3: no such identity: /home/rosmi/.ssh/identity
debug1: Trying private key: /home/rosmi/.ssh/id_rsa
debug3: no such identity: /home/rosmi/.ssh/id_rsa
debug1: Trying private key: /home/rosmi/.ssh/id_dsa
debug3: no such identity: /home/rosmi/.ssh/id_dsa
debug2: we did not send a packet, disable method
debug3: authmethod_lookup keyboard-interactive
debug3: remaining preferred: password
debug3: authmethod_is_enabled keyboard-interactive
debug1: Next authentication method: keyboard-interactive
debug2: userauth_kbdint
debug2: we sent a keyboard-interactive packet, wait for reply
debug2: input_userauth_info_req
debug2: input_userauth_info_req: num_prompts 1
Password: 

 
 
Regards,
Rosmi C. Jose 
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