[Info-vax] stumped by SSH

[Neil Rieck]

On Sunday, February 7, 2016 at 3:27:15 PM UTC-5, Johnny Billquist wrote:
> On 2016-02-07 14:00, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) 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"?
> 
> Uh... So a SET HOST to the local machine also prevents logging in to 
> that account?
> 
> In which case I'd say it's not SSH specific, but an account setting. Do 
> you allow network logins on the account?
> 
> 	Johnny
> 
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My thoughts exactly

The voice of one of my instructors at technical school is still ringing in my ears decades later: "the first step in fault analysis is sectionalization which facilitates "divide and conquer"
 
Thinking of this another way: your car won't start so you pop the hood only to see way more wires, hoses, and tubes than you expected. But an engine requires three things to run: air, spark, fuel. So you immediately translate the complexity you just viewed into a few block diagrams. 
 
Neil Rieck
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.