On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 18:33, Ian Moore wrote: > Hi, > I can normally ssh to my home computer (using password authentication), but > today it's stopped working. The last time I did it was about 9 days ago > from work & it worked then. > The console log shows: > Jan 19 17:04:25 daemon sshd[61084]: error: PAM: authentication error for > imoore from firewall. > > I've tried connecting from 2 different remote hosts, one at work & another > elsewhere - same result. > > When I got home today, I tried creating a new user & then ssh'ed to a > remote machine & ssh'ed back to mine with the new username. > I was able to log in OK as the new user. > > I then changed the password for my normal user & tried to ssh back with the > new password, but I still can't login. > > I'm running 5.3-RELEASE-p2. I have upgraded a few ports since ssh last > worked - openoffice and a few bit & pieces - I'm not sure what exactly. > I haven't altered my ipfw config in that time, nor have I upgraded the base > system or kernel. > > Can anyone think what might have caused this? > > Cheers,
Hi, I'm still having trouble with this. I figured I should be able to fix it by renaming my home directory, then use rmuser to delete my account & create a new account with the same uid. Well I figured wrongly! I still couldn't ssh to my new account. Then I tried deleting that account & creating a new one with the same name but a different UID - still no joy. I just get "error: PAM: authentication error for imoore" every time. So why does it work for new user with a different username? Is PAM somehow keeping the old password somewhere? Cheers, -- Ian GPG Key: http://homepages.picknowl.com.au/imoore/imoore.asc _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
