SSH: Permission denied (publickey, password, keyboard-interactive)

[Chadley Wilson]

On Monday 14 February 2005 17:09, Andrew Alsup wrote:
> I'm trying to SSH from one Linux server to another.  I can ssh from A->B,
> but not from B->A.  I can successfully SSH to both servers from my
> workstation (using password authentication).
>
> Server A: Debian Sarge (testing)
> Server B: Fedora Core 1
>
> Since I can successfully SSH to both servers (from my workstation),
> something must be dorked with Server B's /etc/ssh_config file (I think). 
> On both servers, I have no customizations entered in the ssh_config file. 
> See below:
>
> debian:>ssh -v
> OpenSSH_3.8.1p1 Debian-8.sarge.4, OpenSSL 0.9.7e 25 Oct 2004
> debian:>cat /etc/ssh/ssh_config
> # all settings are default (nothing changed)
> debian:>ssh user at serverB
> User's Password for Server Fedora: xxx
> *** Welcome to Server Fedora ***
> fedora:>exit
> debian:>
>
> fedora:>ssh -v
> OpenSSH_3.6.1p2, SSH protocols 1.5/2.0, OpenSSL 0x0090701f
> fedora:>cat /etc/ssh/ssh_config
> # all settings are default (nothing changed)
> fedora:>ssh user at serverA
> Permission denied, please try again.
> Permission denied, please try again.
> Permission denied (publickey,password,keyboard-interactive).
> fedora:>
>
> It didn't even prompt me for the password!  Any suggestions?
>
> Thanks,
> Andy

Two things :
check the ~/.ssh/known_hosts for an existing entry for the conflicting box 
and check that your firewall settings allow connections on port 22
Get back to me if your still stuck I often get errors with ssh and have to 
resolve them



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