Re: You don't exist. Go away.
On Wed, 2001-11-21 at 15:09, nate wrote:
> Andre Berger said:
>
> > access (I can ping IP addresses, they are not resolved). The "You
> > don't exist. Go away." message appears when I try to issue
>
> while i haven't experienced this myself under normal
> circumstances .. i have had it when trying to ssh in
> a chroot enviornment. turns out ssh or openssh(or both?)
> requires a entry for the userid running ssh in /etc/passwd
> without one it spits back "you dont exist! go away!". have
> had the same error on win32 with SSH without a /etc/passwd
>
> so my best reccomendation would be to check to be sure
> /etc/passwd is there and is not curropted and has an entry
> for the UID your using to do tasks.
I've seen this error once before on my firewall system which had been
clogged with a looping nmbd problem. I couldn't get a login to work, it
gave me the exist error. Luckily I still had a tty logged in so I could
try and kill most of the processes and reboot. I figured the system
couldn't open any more files. Never have had it happen again, so far.
--mike
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