ssh login problem

Kevin Buettner kev@primenet.com
Fri, 16 Feb 2001 01:50:16 -0700


On Feb 15, 11:01pm, Patrick Rhodes wrote:

> Okay, I've got to be missing something obvious:
> 
> I can ssh in to a server (using SSH1 - not my server, so I can't just
> upgrade them to SSH2) as root, but not as any other user (I can su another
> user once in, however).  There is no 'nologin' file in the /etc directory.
> If you try to ssh in as somebody other than 'root', then it just says
> 'authentication failed'.  I've looked all over for any help on this and I'm
> not having any luck.
> 
> Any ideas?

Use "ssh -v" to diagnose the problem.

Kevin