Not able to connect via sshd
When I try to login I get:
ServerName sshd [2246]: pam_unix (sshd:auth): auth could not identify password for [myname]
This is RHEL 6.7 Santiago.
Responses
Hello David,
How do you connect to the server?
using ssh from another linux server or from a Windows ssh client?
Can you login to the server with another account and get root privileges?
If so what do you see in /var/log/secure during a login attempt with myname?
Kind regards,
Jan Gerrit Kootstra
Couple questions:
* Are you using an external authentication tool like sssd
* Are you using faillock to prevent password-guessing
If so, you may be running into an ordering-issue within the PAM password-handler. OpenSSH, if you don't give it a GSSAPI token or SSH key to authenticate with, will consult PAM. The faillock PAM module doesn't quite understand externally-managed users. If you've configured faillock with "die" as its default behavior, faillock will cause the PAM-call to exit back to the calling application (OpenSSH) with an unhelpful error message.
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