[Info-vax] stumped by SSH

[Simon Clubley]

On 2016-02-07, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) <helbig at asclothestro.multivax.de> wrote:
>
> Sun 07 13:56:18 WARNING: password authentication failed. Login to
> account <account> not allowed or account non-existent.
>
> Again, the account exists and the password is correct since I can log in 
> via TELNET and SET HOST/LAT.  I can't log in locally (i.e. within the 
> same node or cluster) either, so it has nothing to do with logging in 
> from far away.  So, what could cause "not allowed"?
>
> I've never done any account-specific stuff in relation to SSH, so what 
> could cause it to be not allowed even if the account exists?
>

If you have any ssh specific directories in the target account, try
renaming them out of the way (and into another directory not within the
directory tree for the target account).

Did you try someone else's suggestion to temporarily turn off captive
mode just in case you are triggering something unusual ?

Simon.

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