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From: Liang Wang <netcasper AT gmail DOT com>
Subject: Re: OpenSSH
Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 22:57:10 +0800
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rickiez <rickiez AT verizon DOT net> writes:

> I have a 2000 server running Cygwin and SSH and it has been working fine for a
> year or so, but I went to add a user to Active Directory and I can see the user
> in /etc/passwd 

Do you mean you add user information into /etc/passwd manually?

IMO, you should do as following:
  $ mkpasswd -l -c >/etc/passwd
  $ mkgroup -l -c >/etc/group

Use -d option if you want to add domain user.

> but when I try to log in via SSH it denies me and logs it in
> event viewer as:
>
> The description for Event ID ( 0 ) in Source ( sshd ) cannot be found. The local
> computer may not have the necessary registry information or message DLL files to
> display messages from a remote computer. The following information is part of
> the event: sshd : PID 2348 : Failed password for illegal user "username" from
> 192.168.0.12 port 1079.
>
>
>
> I replaced the real username with "username" for security reasons.
>
>
>
>
> Any help is greatly appreciated.


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