[winswitch] WinSwitch - Issues connecting via SSH?

[Victor Hooi]

heya,

One other interesting thing - if I check the /var/log/auth.log file, I see
lines:

Failed keyboard-interactive/pam for <username> from 127.0.0.1 port 38428
> ssh2


So it seems like WinSwitch is connecting fine via the Putty tunnel, but
then seems to bomb out with the username/password part.

However, if I connect via the tunnel using a SSH client, I can authenticate
fine using username/password - so not sure what's happening?

Cheers,
Victor

On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 14:02, Victor Hooi <victorhooi at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm having some issues using Winswitch and connecting via SSH to a remote
> Linux host.
>
> Firstly - is it possible to use a SSH private key that has a password? I
> can't seem to find any option to enter in a password for the key. The
> workaround is just to use a keyfile without a password, or to use
> username/password based authentication, but neither are as secure, of
> course.
>
> Secondly - is there any way to use SSH via a HTTP proxy? I dont' know if
> Conch has support for this.
>
> Finally, I've setup username/password based authentication, and I've also
> setup a SSH tunnel via Putty through which I'm connecting, however, I still
> can't seem to open a connection to the box.
>
> The server is a Ubuntu box, the client is Windows.
>
> The Winswich client is setup to connect to localhost/127.0.0.1 (I've
> tried using both) on port 29, which is then forwarded via Putty to port 22
> on the remote Linux host.
>
> SSH tunneling and preload SSH tunnels are both set to on, in the WinSwitch
> client.
>
> I seem to be able to connect fine via that tunnel using other applications.
>
> This is my output in applet.log
>
> https://gist.github.com/1880255
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> Cheers,
> Victor
>