Re: rpi, now no shell for an ssh login
On Tuesday 24 July 2018 14:44:32 Alan Corey wrote:
> So you're running an X session tunneled through ssh and then trying to
> log in by ssh inside that? I'm way out of my league here, but what do
> you get in response to just typing env? Should show all your
> environment variables, including SHELL, TERM, DISPLAY, USER, HOME,
> PATH, etc. You may have inherited a weird environment, or an empty
> (null) one.
>
I'll look at that after I've fed us dinner.
> On 7/24/18, Mark Morgan Lloyd <markMLl.debian-arm@telemetry.co.uk>
wrote:
> > On 24/07/18 17:45, Gene Heskett wrote:
> >>>> Now to see if the pi can be fixed, but the second of those two
> >>>> commands does not exist in /etc/ssh/sshd_config on the pi, even
> >>>> there but commented out.
> >>
> >> But I have not made it work on the pi, with or without the
> >> X11UseLocalhost no (the default it says)
> >> line, i get a login requestor, enter my pw, and get the login
> >> blurb, but then no shell. I have not rebooted the pi, I guess thats
> >> next...
> >>
> >> Didn't help, I can login from here, or from the new armbian install
> >> on the rock64, but I get no shell after the signed in blurb.
> >
> > Let's try to make some sense of this. You've got /what/ /exactly/
> > running on the RPi: Raspbian Jessie?
> >
> > Can you log in using an attached screen/keyboard? As both GUI and
> > text (i.e. in the latter case using <Ctrl><Alt><F1> to get a text
> > login prompt)? Can you either login as root or do a sudo su or
> > whatever? Does ifconfig tell you that the expected interface exists
> > and has the expected address?
> >
> > > And the /etc/passwd says I get /bin/bash...
> >
> > No it doesn't, it says that it's to use it provided that it's
> > installed. Does /bin/bash exist? Does the home directory exist
> > (that's a very common problem)?
> >
> > Now provided that the above is OK, let's look at SSH which is what I
> > /think/ you're asking about. Presumably you can ping the RPi and get
> > a response back (i.e. your route is OK), what /exactly/ happens when
> > you try to SSH to it? Does ssh -v throw any light on it? Can you try
> > from a PC rather than your Rock64?
> >
> > Logging into Raspbian Jessie is something I do on a very regular
> > basis.
> >
> > --
> > Mark Morgan Lloyd
> > markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk
> >
> > [Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or
> > colleagues]
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Cheers, Gene Heskett
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