sshd problem

[Hugh Esco]

Is it an /etc/hosts.deny problem?

Are you able to make a connection
_from_ the computer you are using?

It sounds like the port is open, but
is it open to the IP address you are
coming at it from?

-- Hugh

At 07:12 PM 8/11/03 -0400, you wrote:
>Hi all. I recently configured sshd properly, or so I thought. I currently
>don't have physical access to my machine so I figured I would login and
>check a few things. However, I was greeted with the unpleasantness of not
>being able to login to your own box. Sshd kept denying access when I
>entered the correct username/password. Only 1 person was able to get access
>via ssh, and he had to re-enable telnet so I could access sshd_config and
>figure out what was happening. I compared my sshd_config to one present on
>a working ssh config, and found that most of the params were set to default
>values, except for some path settings. I am currently running the latest
>openssh. Does anyone have any idea why sshd would exhibit such behavior?
>Currently I have Passwordauthentication set to yes and pam authentication
>set to no. Anyone have any ideas on this one?
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