On 01/23/16 07:23, Tom Horsley wrote:
If I try to login to a fedora 23 virtual machine as root,
I get rejected because of "too many authentication failures"
(or something like that, I don't remember the precise
wording).
I'm running an agent, but none of the keys in the agent
would allow a root login so I expect it to fallback
to a password prompt, but I get the failure instead.
When I then try with this:
ssh -o PreferredAuthentications=keyboard-interactive,password
I do indeed get a password prompt and can login.
I suspect I'm suffering from the effects of the
changes in f23 to remove various crypto algorithms
and ssh1 support, etc. But I can't figure out
what the heck is going on.
Any ideas? I'd love to not have to dig up the
silly long option every time I want to login as root :-).
I tried to replicate this using 2 real F23 systems.
I copied my id_rsa.pub on my local system to /root/.ssh/authorized_keys on the remote
machine.
[egreshko@meimei ~]$ whoami
egreshko
[egreshko@meimei ~]$ ssh root@acer
Last login: Sat Jan 23 07:37:23 2016 from 192.168.1.18
[root@acer ~]# whoami
root
[root@acer ~]#
Is this what's failing for you?
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