[techtalk] Not letting me login via ssh

[Michelle Murrain]

On Wednesday 02 May 2001 03:03 pm, Kath wrote:

> > This has me scared to death.
>
> I come home, try to ssh into my Debian box and it will not accept my user
> password.  So I walk over to the box, where I'm logged in as root, type in
> passwd kath and try setting it back to my normal password.  Still won't
> work when I try to login via ssh :|
>
> I'm very scared to reboot the box, fearing that I might not be able to get
> back in.
>
> What should I do?
>
What is the error that you get - just that it won't accept the password?

Have you tried restarting just sshd?

Can you login to another session on your box using a virtual terminal?

Michelle
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Norwottuck Technology Resources
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