Somehow my SSH never wants to ask me for a password.
So I setup a VPS on some random server somewhere in the world and I want to connect to it with ssh.
I can setup a key, but when I do this:
ssh -l some-user IP
I get the error:
Received disconnect from ##.##.##.##: 2: Too many authentication failures for some-user
When I look at the details, I can see that password is one of the options:
debug1: Offering RSA public key: some-user@computer
debug1: Authentications that can continue: publickey,password
Yet SSH never asks me for the password. It tries 5 times with what I suspect is the publickey method and then fails. Why wouldn't ssh try with the password?!
Just in case, my ssh_config file has:
PasswordAuthentication yes
Full log
ssh -v -l root ##.##.##.##
OpenSSH_6.1p1 Debian-4, OpenSSL 1.0.1c 10 May 2012
debug1: Reading configuration data /home/someuser/.ssh/config
debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh/ssh_config
debug1: /etc/ssh/ssh_config line 19: Applying options for *
debug1: Connecting to ##.##.##.## [##.##.##.##] port 22.
debug1: Connection established.
debug1: identity file /home/someuser/.ssh/id_rsa type 1
debug1: Checking blacklist file /usr/share/ssh/blacklist.RSA-2048
debug1: Checking blacklist file /etc/ssh/blacklist.RSA-2048
debug1: identity file /home/someuser/.ssh/id_rsa-cert type -1
debug1: identity file /home/someuser/.ssh/id_dsa type -1
debug1: identity file /home/someuser/.ssh/id_dsa-cert type -1
debug1: identity file /home/someuser/.ssh/id_ecdsa type -1
debug1: identity file /home/someuser/.ssh/id_ecdsa-cert type -1
debug1: Remote protocol version 2.0, remote software version OpenSSH_6.2p2 Ubuntu-6
debug1: match: OpenSSH_6.2p2 Ubuntu-6 pat OpenSSH*
debug1: Enabling compatibility mode for protocol 2.0
debug1: Local version string SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_6.1p1 Debian-4
debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEXINIT sent
debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEXINIT received
debug1: kex: server->client aes128-ctr hmac-md5 none
debug1: kex: client->server aes128-ctr hmac-md5 none
debug1: sending SSH2_MSG_KEX_ECDH_INIT
debug1: expecting SSH2_MSG_KEX_ECDH_REPLY
debug1: Server host key: ECDSA XX:XX:...:XX:XX
debug1: Host '##.##.##.##' is known and matches the ECDSA host key.
debug1: Found key in /home/someuser/.ssh/known_hosts:38
debug1: ssh_ecdsa_verify: signature correct
debug1: SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS sent
debug1: expecting SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS
debug1: SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS received
debug1: Roaming not allowed by server
debug1: SSH2_MSG_SERVICE_REQUEST sent
debug1: SSH2_MSG_SERVICE_ACCEPT received
debug1: Authentications that can continue: publickey,password
debug1: Next authentication method: publickey
debug1: Offering RSA public key: /home/someuser/.ssh/id_rsa
debug1: Authentications that can continue: publickey,password
debug1: Offering RSA public key: someuser@computer
debug1: Authentications that can continue: publickey,password
debug1: Offering RSA public key: someuser@computer
debug1: Authentications that can continue: publickey,password
debug1: Offering DSA public key: someuser@computer
debug1: Authentications that can continue: publickey,password
debug1: Offering RSA public key: someuser@computer
debug1: Authentications that can continue: publickey,password
debug1: Offering RSA public key: someuser@computer
Received disconnect from ##.##.##.##: 2: Too many authentication failures for root