[Freeipa-users] Help with sshd configuration - ChallengeResponseAuthentication

Simo Sorce ssorce at redhat.com
Wed Oct 8 16:30:14 UTC 2008


On Wed, 2008-10-08 at 11:07 -0500, puck at i29.net wrote:
> I've run into a problem when setting up IPA for ssh logins. I've found 
> that I need to set ChallengeResponseAuthentication to "yes" in my 
> sshd_config to allow users to change their expired passwords on login, 
> otherwise the login process just hangs and eventually times out. 
> However, when I set it to "yes" password-less logins between my servers 
> no longer work. Once I'm logged in, if I run a "kinit (username)" then 
> the password-less login works again so I assume that when 
> ChallengeResponseAuthentication is on, sshd just doesn't set that 
> correctly. Can anyone recommend an sshd configuration that would allow 
> both the password-less logins and allow users to change their passwords 
> at login when they are expired?

By "password-less" login you mean a gssapi login or an ssh-key aided
login ?

Simo.




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