* Deirdre Saoirse Moen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010419 00:27]: > I rebooted my system today (probably after a few too many things were > changed) and all of a sudden I can't ssh in as a normal user.
does this mean you *can* ssh as root? or does it mean you can't ssh in at all? > I've got a fairly minimal system, but it seems a strange thing to break > upon reboot. All I can figure is that some package is in some peculiar > state (I *was* tracking "testing" for a time). > > Any ideas where to look? i had a similar problem for a while with unstable. ssh was broken and wouldn't even start. check to see if your sshd is running. if it is, i would check the sshd_config file. i'm not sure what dist you are using, but in debian, it installs in /etc/ssh. do you log in using passwords or rsa? if rsa, i would check your authorized_keys file in ~/.ssh. i would also look at /var/log/auth.log to see if you see ssh logins being rejected. oh, check hosts.deny and hosts.allow in /etc to see if your client machine is being filtered. vinh
