WebOS HP Touchpad - Unable to ssh into Tablet via Ubuntu

Question

I installed the OpenSSH server and client application on Ubuntu, then installed OpenSSH via preware on the HP Touchpad, along with Xecutah, and Xterm. I enter

ssh [email protected]

and get this line:

Permission denied (publickey,keyboard-interactive).

However when I type in this via the HP Touchpad I am able to ssh into the remote machine after entering the user's password:

ssh [email protected]

Any help would be appreciated. Thank You.

Do you have .ssh/authorized_keys set on either of the systems? — belacqua, Oct 26 '12 at 16:00

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 26 '12 at 07:57

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I suspect that the OpenSSH server doesn't allow root logins. In the ssh configuration file, sshd_config (usually in /etc/ssh/, but I have no idea what OS your tablet is running), there is a line containing the following:

PermitRootLogin no

If that is the case, change the no to yes. Otherwise, look through the config file and any authentication logs you might be able to find.

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Here is the Wikipedia page of the HP Touchpad. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP_TouchPad – David Yenor Oct 28 '12 at 02:09

score 0 · Answer 2 · edited Feb 21 '13 at 00:40

This is how sshd is running on my TouchPad (from ps -ef |grep sshd):

/opt/sbin/sshd -D -p 22 -o PasswordAuthentication no -o PermitRootLogin without-password

This indicates that you can log in as root once you set up authentication keys. So from the TouchPad, I downloaded my public key (created with ssh-keygen -t dsa) from a Linux box (192.168.0.254) and stored it on the TouchPad in the .ssh directory as the file 'authorized_keys':

root@HPTouchPad:/var/home/root# scp [email protected]:~/.ssh/id_dsa.pub .ssh/authorized_keys

Once that's done, I could ssh into the TouchPad (192.168.0.32) as the root user.

myuser@alinuxbox:~$ ssh [email protected]

WebOS HP Touchpad - Unable to ssh into Tablet via Ubuntu

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