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Date: Wed, 08 Dec 2004 22:17:17 +0100
From: Bernhard Ege <bernhard AT ege DOT cc>
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Subject: Re: sshd service wont accept password
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Bernhard Ege wrote:
> Well, I am at a loss. My sshd service will not accept my password. 
> However, starting sshd like this:
> 
> /usr/sbin/sshd &
> 
> and then quitting the bash shell (optional) makes sshd work just fine, 
> accepting my password as it should.
> 

> Invalid user bme from 127.0.0.1.

Ok, I thought of one thing more to try just after sending my previous 
email. The above log line (invalid user) prompted me to check the owner 
of the /etc/passwd file and it was owned by bme (me). I changed it to 
SYSTEM and the sshd service worked again. I just figured SYSTEM was able 
to read my files and didn't think twice about it before now.

I am sorry for not figuring this out before sending my email, but it is 
not always easy to debug foreign applications. :-/

Bernhard



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