SSH on Fedora 16

[Rick Sewill]

On Friday, December 23, 2011 10:07:00 AM Daniel Bossert wrote:
> On 12/23/2011 04:14 PM, Tom Horsley wrote:
> > On Fri, 23 Dec 2011 15:30:16 +0100
> > 
> > suvayu ali wrote:
> >> It would be helpful if you could give more details and say what
> >> command you are trying and its output with the verbose flag set like
> >> this -vvv.
> > 
> > Yep, the -vvv option on the remote ssh and taking a look at
> > /var/log/messages and /var/log/secure should provide details about why
> > failure happens. Perhaps the sshd_config file is set to only allow
> > public key connections? That would certainly make a password attempt
> > fail (and is how I have my server setup for remote connections versus
> > local network connections where I do allow passwords).
> 
> Hello
> 
> Here are the outputs:
> 
> Output from the remote machine:
> 
> daniel at saturn:~$ ssh -vvv daniel at 172.25.0.1
> OpenSSH_5.5p1 Debian-6+squeeze1, OpenSSL 0.9.8o 01 Jun 2010
<...text deleted...>
 
> [root at merkur ~]# cat /etc/ssh/sshd_config
> #    $OpenBSD: sshd_config,v 1.82 2010/09/06 17:10:19 naddy Exp $
> 
> # This is the sshd server system-wide configuration file.  See
> # sshd_config(5) for more information.
> 
<...text deleted...>
> # Set this to 'yes' to enable PAM authentication, account processing,
> # and session processing. If this is enabled, PAM authentication will
> # be allowed through the ChallengeResponseAuthentication and
> # PasswordAuthentication.  Depending on your PAM configuration,
> # PAM authentication via ChallengeResponseAuthentication may bypass
> # the setting of "PermitRootLogin without-password".
> # If you just want the PAM account and session checks to run without
> # PAM authentication, then enable this but set PasswordAuthentication
> # and ChallengeResponseAuthentication to 'no'.
> # WARNING: 'UsePAM no' is not supported in Fedora and may cause several
> # problems.
> #UsePAM no
> #UsePAM yes
> 

Could you try "UsePAM yes" without the leading #, as in
UsePAM yes 

> # Accept locale-related environment variables
> AcceptEnv LANG LC_CTYPE LC_NUMERIC LC_TIME LC_COLLATE LC_MONETARY
> LC_MESSAGES
<...text deleted...> 
> 
> Kind regards
> Daniel