[winswitch] SSH login failure with winswitch

[Shane Williams]

I've been trying for a while to use winswitch between several
systems.  First, trying to connect from OSX to a Linux workstation,
but then from one Linux workstation to another (I'm running gentoo on
both Linux boxes).

In each case, what I've found is that it looks like SSH isn't able to
connect with the password, despite the fact that I can connect between
systems using ssh at the command line (these are systems I connect to
regularly, so I feel very confident I'm not mistyping the password).

In particular, what I'm seeing in the logs are entries like:

Aug 20 07:27:54 xxxxxx sshd[23276]: SSH: Server;Ltype: Version;Remote:
192.168.1.9-56825;Protocol: 2.0;Client: Twisted
Aug 20 07:27:54 xxxxxx sshd[23276]: SSH: Server;Ltype: Kex;Remote:
192.168.1.9-56825;Enc: aes256-ctr;MAC: hmac-sha1;Comp: none [preauth]
Aug 20 07:27:54 xxxxxx sshd[23276]: SSH: Server;Ltype: Authname;Remote:
192.168.1.9-56825;Name: shanew [preauth]
Aug 20 07:27:54 xxxxxx sshd[23276]: Postponed keyboard-interactive for
shanew from 192.168.1.9 port 56825 ssh2 [preauth]
Aug 20 07:27:54 xxxxxx last message repeated 2 times
Aug 20 07:27:54 xxxxxx sshd[23276]: Failed keyboard-interactive/pam for
shanew from 192.168.1.9 port 56825 ssh2
Aug 20 07:27:54 xxxxxx sshd[23276]: Disconnecting: Too many
authentication failures for shanew [preauth]

I haven't tried using keys yet, but I get the impression that keys
shouldn't be necessary to connect.

Any suggestions?

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