On Tue, 2005-12-13 at 19:10 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > If you're using ChallengeResponseAuthentication on the remote side, ssh > isn't generating the password prompt. It's giving you exactly the prompt > that the remote PAM module sent. And PAM modules generally do not use > distinguished prompts because that can expose what PAM module is running, > which is sometimes not desirable. (It also turns out that other password > prompts break some applications, such as some Windows ssh clients.) > > If you use PasswordAuthentication, ssh will indeed produce a password > prompt like the one that you want.
Okay, good to know. Thanks for the explanation and sorry for taking up your time. -- Andrew Moise <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
