CANNOT SSH to my computer

[Ivan Georgiev]

On Thursday 18 November 2004 05:42 am, Daniel Bye wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 18, 2004 at 12:30:05AM -0500, Ivan Georgiev wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am running RELEASE-5-3 and tried to ssh to my machine (sshd is
> > running). It asks me 3 times for my password and then quits. The output
> > is shown below. However, if I try "ssh localhost" instead of the ip
> > address (I am using a DSL connection) everyting is OK.
>
> [--- snip ---]
>
> > The message from sshd is:
> >
> > sshd[41578]: error: PAM: authentication error for XXXX from
> > YYY.verizon.net
>
> The default behaviour for sshd now is to not allow password authentication.
> The Password: prompts you see are for the PAM keyboard-interactive
> authentication method.  To allow straight password authentication, change
> this line in /etc/ssh/sshd_config:
>
>     #PasswordAuthentication no
>
> to this:
>
>     PasswordAuthentication yes
>
> Note the removal of `#'!
>
> and then:
>
> # /etc/rc.d/sshd restart
>
> If you want to use public key authentication, then try your session
> again but with two or even three `-v' flags to get more debugging
> messages.  This should give you more idea of what's going on.
>
> HTH
>
> Dan

Thank you, 

I changed PasswordAuthentication to 'yes' and this time it asks me 6 times for 
my password (3 times beginning with "Password:" and another 3 times with 
"Password for xxxx at yyy.yyy.yyy.yyy) and rejects me again with the same 
message from sshd. Adding more verbosity didn't help me to understand the 
problem. I also noticed that my ida_dsa.pub key ends with "ivan@" . Usualy I 
have seen it ending with "someone at some_address_here". Is this a problem?

Thanks again for the help!
Ivan