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Author: Wes Bateman
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Subject: ssh login problem
Do you have an "AllowUsers" line declared in your /etc/ssh/sshd_config
file on the remote end? If so, are your regular users defined there? If
it's not there at all, that shouldn't be a problem then.

Just my first thought anyhow. If not that, try the -v option, as already
mentioned.

Wes

On Thu, 15 Feb 2001, 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?
>
> Patrick
>
>