SSH failure, putty client log has 2005-10-10 17:19:27      Keyboard-interactive authentication refused

Hi All,

I'm having problems accessing ssh for the following version , installed on Solaris 8

OpenSSH_4.2p1, OpenSSL 0.9.8 05 Jul 2005

When i ssh in from my LAN, it does not give me any problems. However when i set up a NAT from an external ip to this ip and i perform ssh to this external ip, i get the following error in putty client log

2005-10-10 17:19:27      Keyboard-interactive authentication refused

also, i get "access denied" from the console and any passwords for any user account fails.

In addition, 1 thing funny is that i noticed there is this message when i login via external ip:

                            ****USAGE WARNING****

This is a private computer system. This computer system, including all
related equipment, networks, and network devices (specifically including
Internet access) are provided only for authorized use. This computer system
may be monitored for all lawful purposes, including to ensure that its use
is authorized, for management of the system, to facilitate protection against
unauthorized access, and to verify security procedures, survivability, and
operational security. Monitoring includes active attacks by authorized entities
to test or verify the security of this system. During monitoring, information
may be examined, recorded, copied and used for authorized purposes. All
information, including personal information, placed or sent over this system
may be monitored.

Use of this computer system, authorized or unauthorized, constitutes consent
to monitoring of this system. Unauthorized use may subject you to criminal
prosecution. Evidence of unauthorized use collected during monitoring may be
used for administrative, criminal, or other adverse action. Use of this system
constitutes consent to monitoring for these purposes.
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which I did not notice at all when i logged in locally. In addition, it does not perform logging to

/var/log/authlog

-rw-------   1 root     sys            0 Oct 10 17:32 authlog

in /etc/syslog.conf, i have added the following line

auth.info                       /var/log/authlog

but it does not seem to log to here at all, strange. I also added tcp wrappers though, i'm not sure if that's the reason why the whole thing is failing, any ssh experts out there who can shed light on this problem?

Thanks in Advance,
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