On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 06:42:23PM -0600, Michael Martinell wrote: > I changed the password of the root user and restarted the machine and am now > unable to locally or remotely connect using ssh clients. <snip>
(0) Perhaps the restart of your machine was what was the cause: maybe you configured the running system, but didn't alter the configfiles? (1) See if sshd is really listening there: netstat -a; nc localhost ssh (2) Are you sure you looked in the appropriate logfile? The default one is /var/log/auth.log (3) Sniff on the connection using tcpdump(8) or friends (4) Maybe it's not the server, but the client where the problem lies? (5) Debugging both sshd & ssh with strace(1), you can get a really detailed picture of what's going on; combine with (3). HTH, Jan. -- Jan Minar "Please don't CC me, I'm subscribed." x 9
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