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  From: Chandra Sekar <vchandrasekar@lycos.com>
  To  : James Mclean <james@adam.com.au>
  Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 00:36:33 -0700

RE: Help on SSH

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I am unable to login as user. I get the same error message.


On Wed, 30 May 2001 16:58:00  
 James Mclean wrote:
>
>hi.
>
>by default, ssh does not allow root logins. login as a user, then su to root...
>
>> 
>> ---
>> 
>> If I do a telnet I am able to login and if I see the /var/log/messages I
>> get the following message.
>> 
>> May 30 12:40:40 mc5878 PAM_pwdb[6702]: (login) session opened for user
>> root by (uid=0)
>> 
>> In the same way If I do a ssh login
>> 
>> [root@mc5878 /root]# ssh -l root mc5878.md.in.dsqsoft.com
>> root@mc5878.md.in.dsqsoft.com's password:
>> Permission denied, please try again.
>> root@mc5878.md.in.dsqsoft.com's password:
>> Permission denied, please try again.
>> root@mc5878.md.in.dsqsoft.com's password:
>> Permission denied.
>> [root@mc5878 /root]#
>> 
>> This is /var/log/messages
>> May 30 12:41:48 mc5878 sshd[6762]: Failed password for ROOT from
>> 172.27.135.154 port 794
>> May 30 12:41:58 mc5878 last message repeated 2 times
>> May 30 12:41:58 mc5878 sshd[6762]: Connection closed by 172.27.135.154
>> 
>> Below are the ssh service running
>> [vcsekar@mc5878 vcsekar]$ ps -ef | grep ssh*
>> root      1946     1  0 May24 ?        00:00:00 ./ssh-agent
>> vcsekar   7500     1  0 May29 ?        00:00:00 ssh-agent
>> vcsekar   8103     1  0 May29 ?        00:00:00 ssh-agent
>> root     18578     1  0 May29 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/sshd
>> root     18972     1  0 May29 ?        00:00:00 ssh-agent
>> 
>> Should any Permission be set on any file.
>> 
>>  - Sekar
>> 
>> 
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