need help with key generation

[Matt Johnston]

On Tue, Jan 25, 2005 at 12:17:54AM +0000, Brian Gibbins wrote:
> Hi Matt,
> 
> Sorry to disturb you, I know you must be a busy man. I'm trying to use
> password log-on from my zaurus to my desktop using dropbear but keep
> getting the message:
> 
>  exited: No auth methods could be used
> 
> I've seen your thread about key generation and can't get that to work
> either, I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong. However I would still prefer
> to use a password login. The strange thing is is that I can ssh from my
> desktop to the zaurus no problem. Is there an Auth module I need to
> install or how do I turn on debug mode (mentioned in the thread) to try
> and fix the problem.

Could you send the output of "ssh -vvv localhost" on the
desktop (using the OpenSSH client) so that I can see what
auth methods the server is allowing? I'm wondering if the
server might only be allowing keyboard-interactive (not
plain password) auth?

Matt