[Techtalk] Re: SSH authentication via PAM-MySQL

[Wim De Smet]

On 4/3/07, Aneesha Govil <popcorn09 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Missed the error message -
>
> On 4/3/07, Aneesha Govil <popcorn09 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > At work I have a requirement wherein I want to authenticate SSH users
> > based on the usernames and passwords in a table in a MySQL database. I am
> > able to get it to use the passwords from the table but it is not picking up
> > the usernames. For example - if I add information as - testuser /
> > testpassword in the table and SSH as:
> >
> > ssh testuser at localhost
>
>
> In the logs I get the error - Invalid user testuser from 127.0.0.1

Could you also enable mysql query logging and look at the queries
you're getting? I believe this would help track the problem down.

greets,
Wim