On Wed, May 08, 2013 at 12:16:46PM +0000, Bonno Bloksma wrote: > Hello Jochen and Darac, > > Solved, typo on my side. > > >> When I use PuTTY to set up a ssh session to my server I get the login > >> prompt. I enter the login name root or the user. It asks me for the > >> password and once I have given that I always get "access denied". > > > > Can you log in as a regular user? What about the option "PermitRootLogin" in /etc/ssh/sshd_config? > > Like I wrote I can log on using the regular console both as the root user and as the regular user. > The PermitRootLogin does not seem to be present in the new default config. That is why I tried the regular user first. Both give the same result. > > Darac, the /usr/bin/ directory has several ssh* files but sshd is not one of them. It is not Wheezy specific as I cannot find that file on my Lenny system either. Sorry, that was a typo on MY part, too. sshd is in /usr/sbin. The point of adding the path was that sshd will refuse to execute unless called with a full path. Glad you got it sorted, though. > > But.... I found the cause, I made a typo in the ip address and ended up on a different machine, that just had to happen a ssh interface as well. :-( > > Bonno Bloksma > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org > Archive: [🔎] 89D1798A7351D040B4E74E0A043C69D73955DC55@EinExch-01.tio.nl">http://lists.debian.org/[🔎] 89D1798A7351D040B4E74E0A043C69D73955DC55@EinExch-01.tio.nl >
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