Re: pam/sshd question: allowing a user to try logging in more than once

[Jeremy Brown]

Michael Sims wrote:
Are your users using PuTTY?  For me, the problem only manifests itself with
PuTTY, connecting from every other SSH client I tried gave the expected
behavior (3 password requests).
 

Actually, that seems to be the case here as well.  I mostly use PuTTY, 
so I hadn't even tried to connect from another client.  Maybe this is a 
PuTTY bug, then?

Here's an oddity.  When I use OpenSSH's command line client in Cygwin, 
there's still a noticeable difference in output between talking to a 
Debian server and a Fedora one:

Debian:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Password:
Password:
Password:
Permission denied (publickey,keyboard-interactive).
Fedora:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]'s password:
Permission denied, please try again.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]'s password:
Permission denied, please try again.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]'s password:
Permission denied (publickey,password,keyboard-interactive).
Perhaps getting PAM to spit out this extra data would be more, eh, 
amiable to PuTTY?  It is PAM that generates these "Password:" lines, right?

Maybe someone on comp.security.ssh would have an answer?
 

I can try.  Is comp.security.ssh more general ssh questions, or mostly 
OpenSSH-specific?  If the former (and no one on debian-user has an 
answer), I'm more inclined to move this to OpenSSH, PAM, or PuTTY 
user/developer lists.

Thanks,
Jeremy
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