[maemo-developers] ssh permission denied

[From: Marius Gedminas]

On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 10:10:55AM -0600, Jeffrey Barish wrote:
> 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.
...
> > 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.

Thank you, you've just saved me from a painful evening of debugging.

Marius Gedminas
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