On Wed, May 08, 2013 at 11:53:55AM +0000, Bonno Bloksma wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Just did my first Wheezy install on a VMware virtual machine. I accepted the 
> default SSH server option.
> Server is running, I can log in via the VMware console both as the root user 
> and as the regular user and use "su -" to switch to the root user.
> 
> 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".
> 
> Cannot find anything in /var/log/syslog or messages as to why.
> Cannot find anything in /etc/ssh/sshd_config that would cause this but... I 
> might miss something.
> 
> This is the first time I cannot get into a system where I am 100% sure I am 
> using the correct name/password and am able to test this by simply using the 
> console.
> What should I look for?

Try running "/usr/bin/sshd -d -p 2222" as root on the server, then
connect putty to port 2222. See if there's anything useful in the log
that that produces.

> 
> Bonno Bloksma
> 
> 
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