[Gllug] ssh woes: illegal user

tet at accucard.com tet at accucard.com
Tue Dec 18 09:58:35 UTC 2001


>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.
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...

Tet

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