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I returned from vacation to find a "helpful" intern had installed some Mandriva 2011.0 updates on a linux server, and he had updated Cygwin to 1.7.16 on a Windows XP machine.

Prior to the updates, I could ssh from cygwin to the linux box using something like ssh user@johnny5 and I could login using my Linux user/pass. (sshd is configured for RSA public key authentication using local credentials.)

Now, when I attempt to login as before, I get:

$ ssh user@johnny5

Windows Authentication

Password:

Domain:

Nothing appears to have changed in sshd_config, so I have no clue as to what broke my usual login method. (I'm tentatively blaming something on the Linux side - but I suppose it could have been the Cygwin update).

Any suggestions? Thanks...

Throwback1986
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Tell ssh to go verbose and force the authentication method. E.g., 

ssh -v -o ChallengeResponseAuthentication=yes -o PasswordAuthentication=no user@johnny5

The verbosity might tell you what's causing the problem. You may have to disable another method of authentication with another -o

mgjk
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  • As much as I want to blame the intern, it looks like there was some shuffling of IP addresses. My /etc/hosts entry for johnny5 no longer pointed to my Linux box. Instead the IP address had been changed to actually point to a Windows box running sshd. I hadn't considered that IT may have been the culprit. This answer spurred me in the right direction. Thanks! – Throwback1986 Aug 02 '12 at 21:10