Putty 0.61 has GSSAPI authentication enabled by default and will always give the "Access denied" error right before the password prompt (or before it accepts the public key). Putty 0.62 fixed this. -greg <div class="gmail_quote">2011/12/17 Krzysztof Mazurek <<a href="mailto:kmazurek@neotek.waw.pl">kmazurek@neotek.waw.pl</a>> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> I found that first it tries to authenticate with ssh key (via putty-agent) then it brings a prompt. When I have incorrect key available via agent it displays "Access denied". That's it ;) Krzysztof <div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"> -----Original Message----- From: <a href="mailto:rhelv6-list-bounces@redhat.com">rhelv6-list-bounces@redhat.com</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:rhelv6-list-bounces@redhat.com">rhelv6-list-bounces@redhat.com</a>] On Behalf Of Göran Uddeborg Sent: Friday, October 28, 2011 4:21 PM To: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (Santiago) discussion mailing-list Subject: [rhelv6-list] SSHD root login Krzysztof Mazurek: > First is displayed "Access denied" and then suddenly password prompt > appears ... and you can login without any problem ;) Maybe a "ssh -v ..." would give a clue? _______________________________________________ rhelv6-list mailing list <a href="mailto:rhelv6-list@redhat.com">rhelv6-list@redhat.com</a> <a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv6-list" target="_blank">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv6-list</a> _______________________________________________ rhelv6-list mailing list <a href="mailto:rhelv6-list@redhat.com">rhelv6-list@redhat.com</a> <a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv6-list" target="_blank">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv6-list</a> </div></div></blockquote></div>