Re: Authentication issues trying to log onto a box as a standard user, and cron jobs...

2012-04-11 Thread Adam Mercer
On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 16:13, Bob Proulx wrote: >> No, all users on this box are from NIS. > > How does having a user in NIS prevent you from logging in as that > user?  Presumably the purpose of NIS is to enable the user to log into > the account.  So I don't understand this comment. It doesn'

Re: Authentication issues trying to log onto a box as a standard user, and cron jobs...

2012-04-11 Thread Bob Proulx
Adam Mercer wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > > Good. Can you log in as the non-root user? > > No, all users on this box are from NIS. How does having a user in NIS prevent you from logging in as that user? Presumably the purpose of NIS is to enable the user to log into the account. So I don't unde

Re: Authentication issues trying to log onto a box as a standard user, and cron jobs...

2012-04-11 Thread Adam Mercer
On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 15:20, Bob Proulx 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 -

Re: Authentication issues trying to log onto a box as a standard user, and cron jobs...

2012-04-09 Thread Bob Proulx
Adam Mercer wrote: > I am trying to connect to a squeeze VM as a standard user using ssh > keys, whenever I try to ssh into the box the connection is closed by > the VM: > > ram@g5:~$ ssh -v lal-squeeze Unfortunately this information is rarely useful. It is the *server* side of the messages that

Authentication issues trying to log onto a box as a standard user, and cron jobs...

2012-04-09 Thread Adam Mercer
Hi I am trying to connect to a squeeze VM as a standard user using ssh keys, whenever I try to ssh into the box the connection is closed by the VM: ram@g5:~$ ssh -v lal-squeeze OpenSSH_5.5p1 Debian-6+squeeze1, OpenSSL 0.9.8o 01 Jun 2010 debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh/ssh_config debug