[Gllug] ssh woes: illegal user

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On Tue, 18 Dec 2001, tet at accucard.com stated:
> 
>>Anyone have the faintest idea why ssh might be giving me the following:
>>
>>  debug1: userauth-request for user acpp0001 service ssh-connection method none
>>  debug1: attempt 0 failures 0
>>  input_userauth_request: illegal user acpp0001
> 
> For those that may be interested, I guess it was the getpwnam() that
> was failing. I added a password to the account, and it started working.

PermitEmptyPasswords in sshd_config?

> I removed the password again, and it continued to work. Odd. No, I
> haven't got a clue why. But at least it's no longer broken...

Utter weirdness.

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