Thanks Darren, the intention to do this : allow users to access my own shell/CLI(including authentication) on port 22. their firewall settings doesnt allow anything other than port 22, so I would internally redirect to port 1023 when customuser is provided. I will try enabling logs, thanks. On Tue, Jan 31, 2017 at 5:10 AM, Darren Tucker <dtucker@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, Jan 31, 2017 at 5:03 AM, Sudarshan Soma <sudarshan12s@xxxxxxxxx> > wrote: > > + added subject > > > > On Mon, Jan 30, 2017 at 11:32 PM, Sudarshan Soma <sudarshan12s@xxxxxxxxx > > > > wrote: > [...] > >> I am trying to give access to sshd port 22 to connect to different port > >> 1023 by differentiating with special user, customuser. Following is how > i > >> tried, but it doesnt work, please suggest. > > What is the objective of this exercise? > > >> If i run sshd in debug mode, password is asked in the server window, > >> prints go to client window: > > I think what's happening is that ssh will open the process' > controlling terminal to ask for a password, and that happens to be > sshd's when run in debug mode and not present when run normally. Try > forcing ssh to request a tty ("ssh -tt ..."). > > If that doesn't work please post the complete server and client debug > logs (using "/path/to/sshd -o loglevel=debug3 -e" should get you the > debug logs for the doesn't-ask case). > > -- > Darren Tucker (dtucker at zip.com.au) > GPG key 11EAA6FA / A86E 3E07 5B19 5880 E860 37F4 9357 ECEF 11EA A6FA (new) > Good judgement comes with experience. Unfortunately, the experience > usually comes from bad judgement. > _______________________________________________ openssh-unix-dev mailing list openssh-unix-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.mindrot.org/mailman/listinfo/openssh-unix-dev