On Wed, 2001-11-21 at 15:09, nate wrote: > Andre Berger said: > > > access (I can ping IP addresses, they are not resolved). The "You > > don't exist. Go away." message appears when I try to issue > > while i haven't experienced this myself under normal > circumstances .. i have had it when trying to ssh in > a chroot enviornment. turns out ssh or openssh(or both?) > requires a entry for the userid running ssh in /etc/passwd > without one it spits back "you dont exist! go away!". have > had the same error on win32 with SSH without a /etc/passwd > > so my best reccomendation would be to check to be sure > /etc/passwd is there and is not curropted and has an entry > for the UID your using to do tasks.
I've seen this error once before on my firewall system which had been clogged with a looping nmbd problem. I couldn't get a login to work, it gave me the exist error. Luckily I still had a tty logged in so I could try and kill most of the processes and reboot. I figured the system couldn't open any more files. Never have had it happen again, so far. --mike
