Can't connect to windows via ssh

Question

I downloaded cygwin and ran ssh-host-config. I'm trying to connect using

ssh -l micah myserver

it then says

micah@myserver's password:

I enter the same password I use to log into windows and it says

Permission Denied, please try again.

After the third try it says:

Permission denied (publickey,password,keyboard-interactive).

What am I doing wrong? Any ideas? Do I need to generate an ssh key on the client and add it somewhere on the server?

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score 2 · Answer 1 · edited Dec 23 '15 at 07:25

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This may save someone time in the future no matter how simple it seems...

The userid will be case sensitive - so if you are used to logging into windows chris even though it is actually Chris, that will not work when you try to ssh in, an easy edit in /etc/passwd will suffice, also make sure user id is case sensitive in Windows service Log on tab

edited Dec 23 '15 at 07:25

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answered Dec 06 '14 at 06:10

chrisamow

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score 0 · Answer 2 · edited Dec 21 '13 at 11:13

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check this page out, it may explain what to try to fix this issue.

http://mah.everybody.org/docs/ssh

http://mah.everybody.org/docs/ssh#gen-keys

seems like you do need a publickey installed for your session. I would say yes you do.

OR

comment out the line in file /etc/ssh/sshd_config

ChallengeResponseAuthentication no

and

restart sshd service.

edited Dec 21 '13 at 11:13

Abhijeet Kasurde

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answered Feb 23 '11 at 20:49

IanN

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Can't connect to windows via ssh

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