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  From: Andrew Reid <andrew.reid@plug.cx>
  To  : <vchandrasekar@mailcity.com>
  Date: 30 May 2001 09:21:49 +0930

RE: Help on SSH

On 29 May 2001 02:49:18 -0700, Chandra Sekar wrote:

> I tried making an entry in /etc/hosts for the windows machine. And also checked
> /etc/hosts.allow and /etc/hosts.deny files. There are no entry in it. Still I 
> was not able to login using SSH.
> 
> After doing a telnet to that machine and if i try to do a ssh connection by 
> giving the command 
> 
> [vcsekar@mc5878 /]$ ssh -l vcsekar mc5878.md.in.dsqsoft.com
> vcsekar@mc5878.md.in.dsqsoft.com's password:
> Permission denied.

SSH likes to give this error when you've not got any PAM service file in
/etc/pam.d/

Check if there is a file /etc/pam.d/sshd file present.

   - andrew

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