[gentoo-user] Re: Peculiar problem with root login

[Harry Putnam]

Harry Putnam  writes:

> Running debian jesse in a vbox vm on a Solaris host
>

Sorry folks, my question was sent to the wrong group... intended for
debian.users

[gentoo-user] Re: Peculiar problem with root login

[Ian Zimmerman]

On 2017-06-11 14:55, Harry Putnam wrote:

> Running debian jesse in a vbox vm on a Solaris host

I'll go easy on the OT this time :-)

>   Jun 11 14:50:55 d2 sshd[2830]: pam_unix(sshd:auth): authentication
>   failure; logname= uid=0 euid=0 tty=ssh ruser= rhost=d.local.lan
>   user=root
> 
>   Jun 11 14:50:57 d2 sshd[2830]: Failed password for root from
>   127.0.0.1 port 54522 ssh2

Is PasswordAuthentication enabled?  It typically is not on my boxes.

ssh has a -v option (and -vv, and -vvv).  I found it somewhat useful in
cases like this.

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