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  • Try putting a wrong password first, then paste in the right one on the second try. Maybe it's some kind of timing issue, and it needs time to load libraries. Or does it only work if you do a right password twice? Commented Jul 15 at 21:01
  • It won't accept the pasted password at all until there has been a successful login. Original post updated. Commented Jul 16 at 6:45
  • If I'm reading your update correctly, this seems to be an issue with SecureCRT? You need to experiment some more to see exactly what SecureCRT needs before it will paste passwords correctly. Check if SecureCRT has some kind of trace option where it can log what it does, and compare a log with a pasted password vs a typed one. Commented Jul 16 at 17:44
  • From the other link I found before posting the question it seems that Konsole has the same issue. I have had very little luck debugging anything related to SecureCRT. Also it seems that both of these clients only have this problem with very specific redhat versions, and only under certain circumstances. Commented Jul 18 at 9:50
  • Sorry, I don't know. And it doesn't seem like anyone else does either. If it were me I would do a custom build of sshd that logs passwords and see what exactly is happening with a failed login. I know that's extra work for you, but I don't have any other suggestions. Commented Jul 18 at 18:26