[Moabusers] Please help: Access portal not authenticating

[Josh Butikofer]

Fritz,

It sounds like the problem is due to not having "password" authentication enabled within your sshd
daemon. Note that MAP only works with either public key or password authentication. This can be
enabled by setting:

PasswordAuthentication yes

in your sshd_config file and restart your ssd.

The reason MCM works is it also supports the "keyboard-interactive" authentication that your sshd is
using. Note that we do plan on making MAP work with keyboard-interactive in the near future.

Let me know if this helps at all.

Regards,

-- 
Joshua Butikofer
Cluster Resources, Inc.

josh at clusterresources.com
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fritz at metrotechindustries.com wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I'm trying to get access portal to work and am not having any luck getting
> past the login screen. Any help is appreciated, see details below.
> 
> Cheers,
> Fritz Wilke
> 
> Primary failure: Unable to authenticate via basic login screen in Moab
> Access Portal.
> Output:
> 	Unsuccessful login attempt!
> 	Invalid Username/Password for Host 'vm-006'
> I am using the login username/password. Also made sure I can ssh to myself
> and put the public key into map/etc/ssh. Furhter I put ADMIN4 ALL into
> moab.cfg, but still no luck.
> 
> Secondary Failure: Unable to authenticate via Password Authentication in
> Moab Cluster Manager Connection Wizard. Keyboard Interactive, however, works
> just fine.
> 
> It would appear the two failures are related.
> 
> Log files:
> 
> map.log (debug enabled): (No indication of authentication failure !!!)
> 
> 10:45:37,418 [http-8080-Processor24] DEBUG
> com.clusterresources.map.UserController - Authenticating via SSH to host:
> vm-006:22
> 10:45:37,418 [http-8080-Processor24] INFO  com.moab.api.connect.GConnect -
> Now Connecting over SSH to vm-006
> 10:45:37,418 [http-8080-Processor24] INFO  com.moab.api.connect.GConnect -
> Connecting
> 10:45:37,602 [http-8080-Processor24] INFO  com.moab.api.connect.GConnect -
> Connection made. Authenticating user
> 10:45:37,603 [http-8080-Processor24] INFO  com.moab.api.connect.GConnect -
> Authenticating User
> 
> mcm.log: (during failed Password Authentication)
> 
> java.io.IOException: Password authentication is not available!
>         at
> com.moab.api.connect.MoabConnection.connectViaSSHPassword(MoabConnection.jav
> a:222)
>         at
> com.moab.gui.connect.SSHConnectionPanel.connectSSHPassword(SSHConnectionPane
> l.java:741)
>         at
> com.moab.gui.connect.SSHConnectionPanel.connectOverSSH(SSHConnectionPanel.ja
> va:622)
>         at
> com.moab.gui.connect.ConnectionWizardFrame.run(ConnectionWizardFrame.java:22
> 9)
>         at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)
> 10:38:42 ERROR [Initial Remote Connection Thread]
> com.moab.gui.connect.ConnectionWizardFrame: error connecting to moab
> java.io.IOException: Password authentication is not available!
>         at
> com.moab.api.connect.MoabConnection.connectViaSSHPassword(MoabConnection.jav
> a:222)
>         at
> com.moab.gui.connect.SSHConnectionPanel.connectSSHPassword(SSHConnectionPane
> l.java:741)
>         at
> com.moab.gui.connect.SSHConnectionPanel.connectOverSSH(SSHConnectionPanel.ja
> va:622)
>         at
> com.moab.gui.connect.ConnectionWizardFrame.run(ConnectionWizardFrame.java:22
> 9)
>         at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)
> 
> 
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