On Wed, May 08, 2013 at 11:53:55AM +0000, Bonno Bloksma wrote: > Hi, > > Just did my first Wheezy install on a VMware virtual machine. I accepted the > default SSH server option. > Server is running, I can log in via the VMware console both as the root user > and as the regular user and use "su -" to switch to the root user. > > When I use PuTTY to set up a ssh session to my server I get the login prompt. > I enter the login name root or the user. > It asks me for the password and once I have given that I always get "access > denied". > > Cannot find anything in /var/log/syslog or messages as to why. > Cannot find anything in /etc/ssh/sshd_config that would cause this but... I > might miss something. > > This is the first time I cannot get into a system where I am 100% sure I am > using the correct name/password and am able to test this by simply using the > console. > What should I look for?
Try running "/usr/bin/sshd -d -p 2222" as root on the server, then connect putty to port 2222. See if there's anything useful in the log that that produces. > > Bonno Bloksma > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] > Archive: > http://lists.debian.org/[email protected] >
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