> From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of Kaplan, Andrew H. > Sent: 22/07/2011 14:34 > To: CentOS mailing list > Subject: [CentOS] Access denied false positive > > > Hi there -- > > One of our servers is running the 5.3 32-bit release. When a user logs into the system via an SSH terminal connection, > he first sees an "Access denied" message, and then gets a password prompt. He is able to enter the password, and > log into the system without issue. It appears the error message is a false positive. > > A check of the messages and secure log files did not show anything apparent. What would cause this message to > occur? I get that when I'm using PuTTY with pageant, automatically presenting an ssh key, which the server I'm connecting to doesn't recognise. Maybe something like that? Andy