On Wed, 12 Mar 2003 20:39:20 -0800 "Net Llama!" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 03/12/03 20:06, Alan Jackson wrote: > > I'm trying to get ssh to work for me. There must be something simple > > I'm missing in the config or something. > > > > I ssh to my son's machine and log in as myself. > > Then I turn around and try to ssh from his machine back to mine. I have my > > port set up as 13045 so I can ssh through my router to my machine : > > > > $ ssh -l ajackson -p 13045 -v earthman > > It just doesn't like my password. I can't imagine why not. > > i've seen this happen on systems where openssl got horked, or pam > support was messed up in the sshd binary. try starting sshd with the -d > switch, which puts it into debug mode so that you'll get verbose > messaging on the server side of what is going on. > Thank you!! PAM was complaining about authentication, so I looked at the /etc/shadow file and to my surprise, my account had no password. I looked in /etc/passwd, same thing. I have to use a password to log on, but I don't know where it is kept. I changed my password to itself, that put it into /etc/shadow, and now it works. I'm running Col 3.1.1. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- | Alan K. Jackson | To see a World in a Grain of Sand | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, | | www.ajackson.org | Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand | | Houston, Texas | And Eternity in an hour. - Blake | ----------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
