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Re: scp on ftp-master.debian.org



On Wed, May 10, 2000 at 04:51:07PM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> On Wed, 10 May 2000, Robert D. Hilliard wrote:
> 
> >      Have the .ssh files from master been transferred to auric?  I am
> > unable to ssh into ftp-master.debian.org.  I am asked for a password,
> > and the password that I use on other debian machines and in the LDAP
> > database is not accepted.  Unless I am badly mistaken, ssh access is
> > necessary to dupload using scp.
> 
> Ben has been fiddling with the kernel to try to fix an SMP related oops.
> While doing this /etc/nologin is set and ssh kindly doesn't bother to tell
> anyone (crappy)

its even better, if anyone uses RSA auth instead of password auth then
/etc/nologin is ignored altogether and access is granted, see bug #50008.

not displaying nologin's contents is lame indeed, maybe i will file
another bug to be ignored...

-- 
Ethan Benson
http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/

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