[techtalk] Not letting me login via ssh

[Kath]

Thanks!  Restarting sshd worked!

Thank you so much!  I was like flipping out.

- Kath, the grateful

----- Original Message -----
From: "Michelle Murrain" <mpm at norwottuck.com>
To: "Kath" <ranger at optonline.net>; <techtalk at linuxchix.org>
Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2001 3:15 PM
Subject: Re: [techtalk] Not letting me login via ssh


> 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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> President
> Norwottuck Technology Resources
> mpm at norwottuck.com
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>