Comments on: PasswordAuthentication not working for SFTP

By: Michael

Michael — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 16:19:13 +0000

I was havint the same problem on my pcbsd (openbsd) server and I had to change the ssh_conf file to \”PasswordAuthentication yes\” and it worked.

By: jy-p

jy-p — Thu, 23 Feb 2006 10:29:09 +0000

i was having the exact same problem with a freebsd-6.0 webserver and setting “PasswordAuthentication yes” did the trick.

thx

By: William Beachley

William Beachley — Tue, 24 Jan 2006 10:34:01 +0000

Thanks! That PasswordAuthentication trick saved me a lot of time. This problem was driving me nuts!

By: Charlie Lindahl

Charlie Lindahl — Tue, 17 Jan 2006 14:32:16 +0000

Updating with 8.0.1 didnt’ work either, BTW.

Next?

By: Charlie Lindahl

Charlie Lindahl — Tue, 17 Jan 2006 14:26:23 +0000

Same problem for Solaris 10 on Sparc (assume same on Solaris 10 for Intel)

PasswordAuthentication = yes

Anyone else with suggestions?

By: Hansz

Hansz — Mon, 09 Jan 2006 15:31:07 +0000

Same problems/solution go for SuSE 9.2

By: Willi

Willi — Mon, 26 Dec 2005 03:55:33 +0000

I can confirm the info from Nate. After I cahnged it worked as well.

By: Nate

Nate — Wed, 14 Dec 2005 10:49:27 +0000

I tried the PasswordAuthentication = yes trick on Debian Sarge and it worked for me.

By: Terry Hobart

Terry Hobart — Wed, 23 Nov 2005 13:02:19 +0000

We were experiencing the exact same problem with Sarge & Dreamweaver 8. Our Woody server works fine with 8. So, I checked the sshd_config file on Woody and the PasswordAuthentication line was commented out. So, I went to our Sarge server and put it in with yes. That worked fine after I restarted ssh. We just tested it on a second sarge box and it worked there too. Make sure root login is enabled if you are trying to use the root user (defalut yes on our sarge boxes). Hope this help.

By: Jason Gill

Jason Gill — Thu, 20 Oct 2005 15:33:11 +0000

Upgrading to OpenSSH_4.2p1 doesn’t help. I’m guessing Sarge is the reason?