[maemo-developers] ssh permission denied

[From: Jeffrey Barish]

Kees Jongenburger wrote:

> On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 9:27 PM, Jeffrey
> Barish<jeff_barish at earthlink.net> wrote:
>> There was an update to openssh recently.  Since installing it, I cannot
>> ssh to the N800.  I copied id_rsa.pub to /home/user/.ssh/authorized_keys
>> even though it had not changed.  I edited /etc/ssh/ssh_config so that it
>> contains PubkeyAuthentication yes
>> RSAAuthentication yes
> usually  you need to use authorized_keys2 and not authorized_keys is
> you use ssh2
>> ssh is still asking me for user's password when I do ssh user at nokia.  I
>> even tried
>> PasswordAuthentication no
>> The permission on authorized_keys is 600 and the owner is user.users. 
>> When I changed PasswordAuthentication to no in /etc/ssh/sshd_config, I
>> get Permission denied (publickey)
> 
> try using ssh -v n810 to get more information about where is goes wrong

Your suggestion to try ssh -v led me to debug mode for sshd:

/etc/init.d/ssh stop
/usr/sbin/sshd -d

I discovered that user user was "not allowed because account is locked".  
/etc/passwd had ! as the password for user.  I changed it to *, at which 
point I was able to ssh in.  It's hard to imagine what the openssh upgrade 
did to create this problem.  Thanks for the response.
-- 
Jeffrey Barish