ssh "Permission Denied"

gnychis · Posted: Wed Jan 03, 2007 9:31 pm Post subject: ssh "Permission Denied"

Hi,

I was wondering if anyone could help me figure out a permission denied error, my password is correct, and I've verified that on the remote machine there are no addresses blocked

justincataldo · Guru Joined: 15 Jun 2005 Posts: 376 Location: Australia

You could try emptying your ~/.ssh/known_hosts file first. It might be a key conflict or something.

What does /var/log/messages say about the ssh attempts?

gnychis · Posted: Thu Jan 04, 2007 12:34 am Post subject:

no luck from removing known_hosts ... and dmesg says nothing
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Cyker · Veteran Joined: 15 Jun 2006 Posts: 1746

Can you connect to the remote machine from another system?

Are you using interactive passwords or key exchange?
What's the server set up to allow?

If the server only allows key exchange, you need to have the keys setup on it or it won't let you in.
If you're using passwords, I'm not sure... are there any intrusion detection systems running on the server? Maybe you've been locked out?
(I get that a lot with mine... have to manually purge my hosts.deny on a regular basis

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gnychis · Posted: Thu Jan 04, 2007 2:02 am Post subject:

i was able to use this exact method on two other machines perfectly sharing the id file, but it won't seem to work on this one

so, i can get in using other computers, but not this computer

I'm not exactly sure what the server is set up to allow, its not my server :\
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justincataldo · Guru Joined: 15 Jun 2005 Posts: 376 Location: Australia

Are you sure it's running on port 22? I've got mine running on ports 22 and 443 for example. You can define this in /etc/ssh/sshd_config