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Distribution: FreeBSD, Fedora, RHEL, Ubuntu; OS X, Win; have used Slackware, Mandrake, SuSE, Xandros
Posts: 448
Rep:
sshd login error
I just finished updating a FBSD 5.3-BETA7 machine to 5.3-RELEASE. Everything seems to be going fine, except I can no longer ssh into my machine, not even from the terminal on the host.
At first it was failing silently, the "ssh -v" showed a "no more authentication methods to try" message. I found a passage in a SSHD book that says to copy sshd.pam from the OpenSSH contrib folder in src to /etc/pam.d/ssh, and change the owner to root and permissions to 664. This certainly did something, as -v now shows quite a different message, but it's not fixed:
invalid facility 'sshd' (ignored)
fatal: PAM: initialisation failed
Am I taking the wrong route to solving the problem?
Apparently, the default value of the parameter "PasswordAuthentication" was changed from "yes" to "no" in the latest version of sshd_config. It was enough to keep me from being able to log in. Changing it back to "yes" seems to have done the trick for me.
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