[SOLVED] Re: Enabling SSD

On Mon, Jan 29, 2024 at 11:32:05PM -0500, Paul M Foster wrote:

> Folks:
> 
> Fresh install of FreeBSD 14. The following changes in /etc/ssh/sshd_config:
> 
> LogLevel DEBUG
> PermitRootLogin yes
> PubkeyAuthentication no
> PasswordAuthentication yes
> KbdInteractiveAuthentication no
> 
> No modifications have been made to other files, including the PAM files.
> 
> My intent is to insist on password, not public key authentication. Root
> login is more or less irrelevent, just convenient.
> 
> Regardless of edits to the file, or which user, attempts to login from
> elsewhere on the LAN fail. The response on the client side: I'm not asked
> for a password at all. The connection just closes. This client has
> consistently been able to SSH into other Linux clients on this LAN. It's
> based on the latest Debian, so it's particularly out of date.
> 
> Here are the relevant lines from auth.log:
> 
> Jan 30 03:24:22 buckaroo sshd[3121]: Connection from 192.168.254.20 port
> 60568 on 192.168.254.30 port 22
> Jan 30 03:34:22 buckaroo sshd[3121]: Connection closed by authenticating
> user paulf 192.168.254.20 port 60568 [preauth]
> 
> The last line puzzles me. Does this mean that the *client* closed the
> connection? If so, any guesses why? If this is no help, any other reasons
> why SSH is not working properly?
> 
> Paul
> 

Well, I solved it. On the CLIENT, in the ~/.ssh/config, I had:

PasswordAuthentication no

When I changed this value to yes, it all worked.

Thanks to all who attempted to help. It is appreciated.

Paul

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