Hi, I while ago I put NixOS on another computer. I set it all up and it's great except for one problem: I can't SSH into the root account on it. See below for some attempts: I want to SSH from @lenalee to @yuuki. It just keeps rejecting my password even know I know it's correct: I demonstrate that by SSHing into a regular user on that box and then using ‘su’. This also shows that it's not a problem with SSH access in general, just to that user. The only thing I'm not showing here is SSHing into root@yuuki from regular user @lenalee because I set up login with a public key for convenience. This also that I can actually log into the user, just not with the password.
I hoped that this would go away after I stopped messing with the users at install time but it has now been weeks and multiple reboots &c and the problem persists. Below is an annotated session dump. I especially point your attention to the last part. ## -- Try logging into the root user, fail. [root@lenalee:/home/shana]# ssh root@yuuki Password: Password: ^C [root@lenalee:/home/shana]# exit -- Log into the regular user there. [shana@lenalee:~]$ ssh shana@yuuki Password: Last login: Fri Aug 22 11:10:18 2014 from lenalee -- …and switch to the root that way… [shana@yuuki:~]$ su Password: -- …which works so the password is correct. [root@yuuki:/home/shana]# exit [shana@yuuki:~]$ logout Connection to yuuki closed. [shana@lenalee:~]$ su Password: -- Keep trying, keep failing. That second way of failure and prompting -- makes me suspicious. [root@lenalee:/home/shana]# ssh root@yuuki Password: Password: Password: root@yuuki's password: Permission denied, please try again. root@yuuki's password: Permission denied, please try again. root@yuuki's password: [root@lenalee:/home/shana]# exit ## It'd be great if someone could offer some advice. -- Mateusz K. _______________________________________________ nix-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
