On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 15:20, Bob Proulx <b...@proulx.com> wrote: > Good. Can you log in as the non-root user?
No, all users on this box are from NIS. > Yes. Stop all other lines of debugging and focus on this issue. Why > is there an error there? Can you log in as that user? > > laltest@lal-squeeze:~$ su -l laltest No, as this account is a special account without a password. We can only log into this account using a shared ssh key. > If not then why not? Start debugging there. > >> Also I have a cron job scheduled, via crontab, to run at 21:01 >> everyday. It fails to run and the only reference to this I can find in >> the logs is the following: >> Apr 8 21:01:01 lal-squeeze CRON[14107]: Authentication failure >> So I imagine that this is a different manifestation of the same problem. > > Everything points to the same problem. Debug it first. > >> Any recommendations on how to debug this issue? > > Look in /var/log/syslog for messages. Look in /var/log/auth.log for > messages. I can't see anything in the logs around the time that I try and connect to the box. Cheers Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CA+mfgz0xE-0D13gGa-Ff3mafmHJb_=rd6csbod3ohofuobz...@mail.gmail.com
