[WBEL-users] Root login: Access Denied

[Aly Dharshi]

Using SSH and logging into a machine as root is a very bad idea. A question to 
ask is that do you get a login or username prompt, if so then you have no 
firewall or sshd startup problems. Is there something in hosts.allow or 
hosts.deny that you have set ? Can you run a connection to the machine with the 
verbosity flag and see if you notice anything off.

Can you login to the box as a user ?

Cheers,

     Aly.

Kuervers.SJ@forces.gc.ca wrote:
> It could be something as simple as trying to access the wrong machine.
> 
> Are you positive of the DNS lookup and IP Address?  The Access Denied might
> be because you are trying (for example) to SSH into a Windows server due to
> incorrect IP.
> 
> Another possibility is a firewall between you and the server.  Is it
> possible that a firewall is blocking the SSH traffic to the server?
> 
> A final possibility:  Is the SSHD service running.  Perhaps it is not set to
> start up on boot?
> 
> Hope this helps.
> 
> Steve Kuervers
> Systems Engineer
> Land Force Western Area
> Area Simulation Centre (Edmonton)
> Department of National Defence (Calian Contractor)
> (780) 973-4011 Ext 5831
> (780) 973-1557 Fax
> CSN 528-5831
> mailto:kuervers.sj@forces.gc.ca
> http://www.army.dnd.ca/ASC_LFWA/
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Anthony Plunkett [mailto:doobeh@thefort.org]
> Sent: Tuesday, October 12, 2004 11:39 AM
> To: Whitebox-users@beau.org
> Subject: [WBEL-users] Root login: Access Denied
> 
> 
> Hi hope someone can help :]
> 
> I've built a wee server and I've just put it in the datacentre, but now 
> I can't seem to login via ssh with the root account (Access Denied).  
> When I had it locally to me I could ssh in fine, so I'm assuming that 
> there is a rule somewhere that dissallows logging in as root from a 
> remote location (excluding when the remote machine is on the same ip 
> range) is this normal, I know fbsd defaults to something similar, but I 
> was unaware that WBEL did too or maybe I'm just entirely confused and 
> it's something else :] Also when I su from another user I get incorrect 
> password (which I'm positive it isn't)
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> Anthony Plunkett.
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