On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 06:48:00AM -0700, Gabby James wrote: > When I try to ssh into the system, I receive the following error messages > in /var/log/secure: > > Dec 2 07:37:55 2d2-dhcp-2-2-2 sshd[11560]: User johnl not allowed because > shell /bin/bash does not exist > Dec 2 07:37:55 2d2-dhcp-2-2-2 sshd[11560]: input_userauth_request: illegal > user johnl > Dec 2 07:37:55 2d2-dhcp-2-2-2 sshd[11560]: Failed none for illegal user > johnl from 10.2.1.3 port 32932 ssh2 > Dec 2 07:37:57 2d2-dhcp-2-2-2 sshd[11560]: Failed password for illegal > user johnl from 10.2.1.3 port 32932 ssh2 > > [ ... ] > > I can use telnet without any problems, but ssh gives me problems. > /bin/bash does exist on my system. It is executable, owned by root and has > a mode of 766. Sounds like a misleading error message. Change the mode on /bin/bash to be 755. Why oh why is /bin/bash world-writable? Oh the off chance that you typoed and meant to say the mode was 755, you may also want to double-check that there isn't a trailing whitespace on the johnl passwd file entry. The log message appears to have an extra space in it. -- Ed Schmollinger - schmolli@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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