Thank you so much Tim, now I can log in without problems! I don't think I protected it with extra passwords. I meant when I login, I use my SSH key and my login/password from Wikitech account.
Anyway, /home/torin8 problem is solved. Thank you everybody for your help. Best, Ann On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 3:45 PM, Tim Landscheidt <[email protected]>wrote: > Ann Samoilenko <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I use Putty, specify my SSH key, my login and password, and Putty gets me > > to /. (still saying that access to home/torin8 is denied). > > > When you authenticate, don't you use password and your SSH key? > > > [...] > > Labs (Tools) accounts don't have passwords, only ssh keys; > it could be that you protected the private half of your ssh > key with a password (often also called passphrase). > > Anyhow, the problem with /home/annabel seems to have been a > known bug that doesn't create the home directories of new > users properly under certain circumstances that are hard to > debug. > > I have however no idea how /home/torin8 got owned by root. > > I fixed both, and if these were the only issues, you should > be able to log in now. > > Tim > > > _______________________________________________ > Labs-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/labs-l > -- ----------------------------------------- Kind regards, Ann Samoilenko, MSc Oxford Internet Institute University of Oxford Adventures can change your life e-mail: [email protected] Skype: ann.samoilenko
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