Re: [CentOS] Ssh with OS X Tiger (Darwin) and CentOS 4.2

On Sat, 19 Nov 2005, Ryan Lum wrote:

Anyone know any issue with OS X 10.4 and CentOS with ssh or any connectivity issue with: OpenSSH_3.8.1p1 vs OpenSSH_3.9p1?

When communicating with a CentOS box, the Tiger ssh client tries to do Authentication in the order of publickey, gssapi-with-mic, password. When communicating with a Tiger sshd, the Tiger ssh client tries gssapi-with-mic, publickey, gssapi, password, keyboard-interactive.

When communicating with Linux boxes, you'll have better luck by setting the PreferredAuthentications directive in ssh_config (or ~/.ssh/config) to "publickey,keyboard-interactive,password". That works well for me (Tiger client, lots of Linux servers)...