Strange problem with ssh

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kyrrin

Fellow techies,

I've run across some very strange behavior on FreeBSD 8.0, involving ssh.

Specifically: Whenever I attempt a connection, the thing responds to the initial attempt and asks for my user name. I give it. Instead of prompting me for my password, the thing simply sits there for about 10-15 seconds and then disconnects.

I'm baffled. I've checked everything I did to my sshd_config file, and nothing has changed since I first built the system a couple of years ago. Annoyingly enough, it USED to work!

Thoughts?

Thanks much.
 
You might want to upgrade this machine because it is currently unsupported. In the mean time change the following in sshd_config and monitor the auth.log.

Code: 
UseDNS no
 
Also,

check your /etc/pam.d/sshd settings.

Generally: find default configs for both /etc/ssh/sshd_config and /etc/pam.d/sshd, restart the daemon and check again (I suppose there is no chance that you start sshd from inetd(8)?).
 
Got it, thanks!

gkontos said:
You might want to upgrade this machine because it is currently unsupported. In the mean time change the following in sshd_config and monitor the auth.log.

Code: 
UseDNS no
Click to expand...

That little snippet of code cured the problem completely. Thanks much!

And yes, upgrade is being planned.
 
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