[TriLUG] SSH "partial success"

[M. Mueller (bhu5nji)]

I use SSH2 3.x.  I don't recognize those messages, but the first thing that 
popped into my head was about user id.  I have my identities defined in my 
normal user accounts.  Sometimes I try to ssh in somewhere when I am root and 
things "kind of work" but I get that repeated request for a password.  Once, 
I think I got through by entering the user account password (not the SSH 
passphrase).  Try going back to the account in which you setup the 
authentication and try logging in from that account.  When I first started 
using SSH, that error would really lower my productivity for the day.

Mike M.


On Tuesday 12 February 2002 11:37 am, you wrote:
> What does "Authenticated with partial success" mean?  I installed there
> beta servers in the past two days and two of them SSH fine but one is
> giving us grief.  I can duplicate the error from Raleigh (posted
> below).  Basically, the user is prompted for a password, they get the
> "Authenticated with partial success" message and they are prompted
> again, get the message again, they are prompted a third time, they get a
> slightly different message (no please try again) and they are returned
> to the prompt.  This is a RH 7.2 installation that is pretty much "out
> of the box" using OpenSSH_2.9p2, SSH protocols 1.5/2.0, OpenSSL
> 0x0090602f.
>
> userid at servername's password:
> Authenticated with partial success.
> Permission denied, please try again.
>
> Unfortunately, I'm not 100% sure that we are getting the whole story
> (the server is up in the mountains).  This person who initially reported
> the problem could well have tried to generate a new key or something --
> or maybe this server had this particular problem from the get go.
>
> I did see something about reverse looking failure causing a similar
> problem but since I can go to the same servers via SSH from other
> machines, I don't feel that is the issue.