Subject: Re: sshd gives failure to bind port 22 error - NetBSD-1.5.2
To: Dave Huang <khym@azeotrope.org>
From: Gerald C. Simmons <simmons@darykon.cet.com>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 07/15/2002 08:04:37
> On Sun, 14 Jul 2002, Gerald C. Simmons wrote:
> > Permission denied (publickey,keyboard-interactive).
> 
> Hmm... have you changed the /etc/sshd.conf file on the NetBSD machine or
> /etc/ssh_config on the PowerBook (MacOS X, right?) from the default? In
> particular, do you have "PasswordAuthentication no" in either one? It
> looks like I was wrong when I said that "keyboard-interactive"  was the
> standard password authentication... password authentication is
> "password" :) It's not showing up in the list of acceptible
> authentication methods though, so it looks like it's been turned off
> somewhere.
> -- 

That worked!!  You know, I set Password Authentication to no, because the
comment line in the file smbd.conf said that this would disable "tunneled clear
text" passwords. I inferred that it would use encrypted passwords instead, not
no passwords.

Do you know what they meant?

Gerry