[Info-vax] SSH / SFTP troubles

[Simon Clubley]

On 2012-08-03, GerMarsh <marsh.family at tirhir.com> wrote:
> On Thursday, August 2, 2012 5:36:37 PM UTC+1, Steven Schweda wrote:
>> > This used to be known as Hummingbird and is a Windows 7
>> 
>> > client. Using password authentication it works a treat!
>> 
>>    And what happens with password authentication "from one
>> 
>> VMS system to another"?
>> 
> That is a very good point - it merely asks for my password three times then
> comes up with the usual "No further authentication methods available".
>
> I note too that it does clock up intrusion records as well as clocking up
> failures in the UAF. The audit journal contains...
> Remote username:          SSH_23529361
> Status:                   %LOGIN-F-NOTVALID, user authorization failure
>
>I'm positive I am entering the password correctly as I can set host to it no
> problem.
>

One of the SFTP/SSH problems I encountered was that when certificates and
passwords were both allowed options, I could not login using a password
when connecting to some SFTP/SSH servers.

I'm at home so I don't have the correct command to hand, but I had to
force password only authentication from the command line before I could
login to the server when using the VMS SFTP client. (The Linux sftp/ssh
client worked just fine without any problems when connecting to the
server.)

As this is from memory, the syntax may be wrong, but try something like:

$ sftp -o "AllowedAuthentications password" {rest of sftp/ssh command line}

Also, I am assuming you have checked the login isn't been rejected because
you happen to have triggered breakin evasion.

Simon.

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