ssh and root on 4.10 = password discovery (maybe)

[Tig]

On Wed, 21 Jul 2004 14:12:45 +0200 (CEST)
Konrad Heuer <kheuer2 at gwdg.de> wrote:

> 
> I roughly remember to have read about that problem for older versions
> of OpenSSH.
> 
> But on my 4.10 boxes, there's no problem. Looks always like this,
> correct and incorrect password given:
> 
> % ssh root at box
> root at boxes's password:
> Permission denied, please try again.
> root at boxes's password:
> Permission denied, please try again.
> 
> Version:
> 
> % ssh -V
> OpenSSH_3.5p1 FreeBSD-20030924, SSH protocols 1.5/2.0, OpenSSL
> 0x0090704f
> 
> Best regards
> 
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Well, this is strange. The 5.2.1 box and the 4.10 box both have the same
sshd_conf options, however the OpenSSH versions are different (but
expected)

5.2.1
OpenSSH_3.6.1p1 FreeBSD-20030924, SSH protocols 1.5/2.0, OpenSSL
0x0090703f

4.10
OpenSSH_3.5p1 FreeBSD-20030924, SSH protocols 1.5/2.0, OpenSSL
0x0090704f 

Do you have any non-default settings to disable remote root access on
your 4.10 box? This 4.10 box was recently upgraded from 4.9 (using
cvsup), maybe I missed something is all I can think of.

-Tig