[KLUG Members] re: putty & suse

[Adam Tauno Williams]

> > >I've noticed that the putty application for Win32 can't connect to any of my 
> > >SuSe servers (tells you how often I use a Winblows box).  But I can ssh into my 
> > >RedHat boxes Ok.
> > >Putty is version 0.51
> > >It takes the username but won't accept any password,  and I nothing in the logs 
> > >jumps out at me.
> > You need to update putty.  
> Yes, I tried the latest and it seems to work with the default SuSE 9.2
> settings.

Concur, I can swith back to "PasswordAuthentication no" in sshd_config
and 0.56 works, and my previous version does not.

Updating Putty is certainly the superior solution.

> > My version is 0.55, and there might be something newer than that.  
> Yes there is; you might want to upgrade again.  From the web page:
> http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/
> "2004-10-26 ANOTHER SECURITY HOLE, fixed in PuTTY 0.56"