On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 9:54 AM, Andy Holt <centos-list at orgdotuk.org.uk> wrote: >> 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 > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > I had a similar issue with PuTTY after upgrading to v 0.61. I disabled Attempt GSSAPI atuthentication (SSH-2 only) under Connection>SSH>GSSAPI. -Matt