Why SuSE 9.0 vs. 9.1?

Jay R. Ashworth jra at baylink.com
Fri Jul 30 09:32:56 PDT 2004


On Fri, Jul 30, 2004 at 12:28:26PM -0400, William James McEachran wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 30, 2004 at 12:15:38PM -0400, Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
> > I haven't really gotten far enough yet... but the inability to log in
> > by ssh by default troubles me.  It answers the phone, but won't accept
> > my password for root or a user, and doesn't seem to log why not
> > anywhere.
> 
> You have to go into /etc/ssh/ssh_config and uncomment the HOST entry.

It's actually sshd_config, and the entry is PasswordAuthentication
which defaults to "no" in 9.1; I don't think that's the default in 9.0.

Imagine trying to do that on a video monitor.  Not VGA.  NTSC.  I know
now how John must feel.  :-}

Cheers,
-- jra
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