Excellent response -- thanks for the clue.
-bch
On 5/29/14, Mikhail Gusarov <dottedmag_at_dottedmag.net> wrote:
> Hi.
>
> Some configurations enable "password" password authentication, others
> enable "keyboard-interactive" password authentication. Yes, it is
> confusing. And yes, it is what forced me to implement keyboard-interactive
> authentication in libssh2 in first place.
>
> If you run ssh -v, you'll see "Authentications that can continue" lines in
> the output. First one contains a full list of authentication methods
> accepted by the server. I'm pretty sure the hosts which you can't connect
> to using libssh2 will not have "password" init, but "keyboard-interactive"
> only.
>
>
>
> Best regards,
> Mikhail Gusarov.
>
>
> On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 6:39 PM, B Harder <brad.harder_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hey Mikhail -- thanks for the response.
>>
>> I can use canonical ssh (OpenSSH) to authenticate and successfully
>> connect to the hosts in question. I'm certainly _not_ beyond finding
>> out the problem is with my code -- but I'm pretty curious how I can
>> successfully (repeatedly) connect to some "class" of hosts, but not
>> others.
>>
>> I'll see if I can tailor the sftp example to demonstrate my issue.
>>
>> Otherwise, I take it there are no known issues regarding FreeBSD/Mac
>> OS X? (I wouldn't be surprised if their code/network stack is very
>> closely related -- I've been experiencing my OS X problem for weeks
>> now, and occasionally poking at the code to find a pain point -- when
>> I experienced same issue with FreeBSD, I decided to post here for
>> other people's experiences).
>>
>>
>> -bch
>>
>> On 5/29/14, Mikhail Gusarov <dottedmag_at_dottedmag.net> wrote:
>> > Probably those hosts disable password authentication and only enable
>> > keyboard-interactive one.
>> >
>> > Check out http://www.libssh2.org/examples/sftp.html
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > Best regards,
>> > Mikhail Gusarov.
>> >
>> >
>> > On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 6:20 PM, B Harder <brad.harder_at_gmail.com>
>> > wrote:
>> >
>> >> I've got code that will connect to NetBSD, Solaris, Linux hosts and
>> >> authenticate and Do What I Want. However, attempting to connect to a
>> >> FreeBSD (10 release) or Mac OS X host yields authentication error. I'm
>> >> sure the username/password is correct. If I use key-based
>> >> authentication to these problem hosts though, everything works fine.
>> >>
>> >> Is there a known issue w/ OS X/FreeBSD ? Is there some
>> >> boilerplate/reference code available for username/password
>> >> authentication to use as basis for example to demonstrate?
>> >>
>> >> Kind regards,
>> >>
>> >> -bch
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