Authentication by password failed

[shaikshabana]

Hi,
i am unable to login to remote machine,
the code is giving Authentication by password failed.
Please help me out.
Following are the logs from the code

2014-09-15 17:54:51.621 SSHCore[2274:70b] Host check: 2, key:
2014-09-15 17:55:08.633 SSHCore[2274:70b] Authentication by password failed.

Thanks.

[lhagan]

Are you trying to connect to a Mac server? The OS X SSH server is configured out of the box to reject password authentication, requiring instead interactive auth. SSHCore doesn't support interactive.

If I recall correctly, you should be able to work around this problem by adding PasswordAuthentication yes to your server's ssh config.

[shaikshabana]

Hi lhagan,
Yes i am trying to connect to mac Machine remotely.
I have used NSTask to connect that but its not giving flexibility to connect with password,its working great with key based authentication.

What is meant by server's ssh config,can u please elaborate on this,how can i make PasswordAuthentication to Yes

Thanks for the quick reply.

[lhagan]

On the mac that you're trying to connect to, edit /etc/sshd_config, changing this line:

#PasswordAuthentication no

to:

PasswordAuthentication yes

...then restart the ssh server. The simplest way to do this is to uncheck Remote Login in System Preferences > Sharing and then re-check it.

[shaikshabana]

Thanks Luke