Re: Authentication issues trying to log onto a box as a standard user, and cron jobs...

2012-04-11 Thread Adam Mercer
On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 15:20, Bob Proulx b...@proulx.com wrote: Good.  Can you log in as the non-root user? No, all users on this box are from NIS. Yes.  Stop all other lines of debugging and focus on this issue.  Why is there an error there?  Can you log in as that user?  

Re: Authentication issues trying to log onto a box as a standard user, and cron jobs...

2012-04-11 Thread Bob Proulx
Adam Mercer wrote: Bob Proulx wrote: Good. Can you log in as the non-root user? No, all users on this box are from NIS. How does having a user in NIS prevent you from logging in as that user? Presumably the purpose of NIS is to enable the user to log into the account. So I don't

Re: Authentication issues trying to log onto a box as a standard user, and cron jobs...

2012-04-11 Thread Adam Mercer
On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 16:13, Bob Proulx b...@proulx.com wrote: No, all users on this box are from NIS. How does having a user in NIS prevent you from logging in as that user?  Presumably the purpose of NIS is to enable the user to log into the account.  So I don't understand this comment.

Authentication issues trying to log onto a box as a standard user, and cron jobs...

2012-04-09 Thread Adam Mercer
Hi I am trying to connect to a squeeze VM as a standard user using ssh keys, whenever I try to ssh into the box the connection is closed by the VM: ram@g5:~$ ssh -v lal-squeeze OpenSSH_5.5p1 Debian-6+squeeze1, OpenSSL 0.9.8o 01 Jun 2010 debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh/ssh_config

Re: Authentication issues trying to log onto a box as a standard user, and cron jobs...

2012-04-09 Thread Bob Proulx
Adam Mercer wrote: I am trying to connect to a squeeze VM as a standard user using ssh keys, whenever I try to ssh into the box the connection is closed by the VM: ram@g5:~$ ssh -v lal-squeeze Unfortunately this information is rarely useful. It is the *server* side of the messages that are