Subject: Re: ssh prompts passwd twice
To: Jan H. van Gils <JanVG@VGNet.NL>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
List: current-users
Date: 03/10/2005 11:34:07
On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 11:10:20AM +0100, Jan H. van Gils wrote:
> On donderdag 10 maart 2005 10:02 Manuel wrote:
> 
> >Subject: ssh prompts passwd twice
> >
> >
> >Hi,
> 
> Hi Manuel,
> 
> >I installed a i386 from a current snapshot build yesterday (the sources
> >are 2 days old). When I connect to this box, ssh asks the passwd twice:
> >SSH passphrase: 
> >SSH passphrase: 
> >Last login: Wed Mar  9 19:22:23 2005 from ducas.lip6.fr
> >
> >I get this for either root or a regular user, and from current, 2.0 and
> >1.6.x ssh clients.
> >Anyone else seeing this ?
> 
> Yes I have seen this to, at first I thought it was a mistake on my site
> but when trying it a couple of times, it every time asked me the password
> twice.

I also noticed that what is entered at the first prompt doesn't matter:
it can be the right passwd, any string or an empty string, the first one
always fail, the second one behaves as expected

-- 
Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
     NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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