[KLUG Members] putty & suse

[Bruce Smith]

> > 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.
> 
> /etc/ssh/sshd_config
> =# To disable tunneled clear text passwords, change to no here!
> -#PasswordAuthentication yes
> +PasswordAuthentication yes

Did that solve it?

I've been getting complaints about the same thing, and there is the
default setting of:

 UsePAM yes

that "may bypass the setting of 'PasswordAuthentication' and
'PermitEmptyPasswords'"

So I wasn't sure if "PasswordAuthentication yes" would make any
difference.

 - BS