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
> 
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