Hello all, I'm trying to get SSH to work with a non-root user in a VPS Container running CentOS 5.3. But with no luck. I can log in to root with no problem, but no matter which way I try, I can't log in to any normal users that I make. When I try to log in via SSH, it always fails, and behaves exactly as if though I was entering the wrong password. (I am entering the right one, though, I've make sure of that) Here I try to log into user "fmain": (with debugging view enabled) # ssh 109.107.120.17 -l fmain -v OpenSSH_5.2p1, OpenSSL 0.9.8k-fips 25 Mar 2009 debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh/ssh_config debug1: Applying options for * debug1: Connecting to 109.107.120.17 [109.107.120.17] port 22. debug1: Connection established. debug1: identity file /home/yarin/.ssh/identity type -1 debug1: identity file /home/yarin/.ssh/id_rsa type -1 debug1: identity file /home/yarin/.ssh/id_dsa type -1 debug1: Remote protocol version 2.0, remote software version OpenSSH_4.3 debug1: match: OpenSSH_4.3 pat OpenSSH_4* debug1: Enabling compatibility mode for protocol 2.0 debug1: Local version string SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_5.2 debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEXINIT sent debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEXINIT received debug1: kex: server->client aes128-ctr hmac-md5 none debug1: kex: client->server aes128-ctr hmac-md5 none debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEX_DH_GEX_REQUEST(1024<1024<8192) sent debug1: expecting SSH2_MSG_KEX_DH_GEX_GROUP debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEX_DH_GEX_INIT sent debug1: expecting SSH2_MSG_KEX_DH_GEX_REPLY debug1: Host '109.107.120.17' is known and matches the RSA host key. debug1: Found key in /home/yarin/.ssh/known_hosts:1 debug1: ssh_rsa_verify: signature correct debug1: SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS sent debug1: expecting SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS debug1: SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS received debug1: SSH2_MSG_SERVICE_REQUEST sent debug1: SSH2_MSG_SERVICE_ACCEPT received debug1: Authentications that can continue: publickey,gssapi-with-mic,password debug1: Next authentication method: gssapi-with-mic debug1: Unspecified GSS failure. Minor code may provide more information No credentials cache found debug1: Unspecified GSS failure. Minor code may provide more information No credentials cache found debug1: Unspecified GSS failure. Minor code may provide more information debug1: Next authentication method: publickey debug1: Trying private key: /home/yarin/.ssh/identity debug1: Trying private key: /home/yarin/.ssh/id_rsa debug1: Trying private key: /home/yarin/.ssh/id_dsa debug1: Next authentication method: password fmain@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx's password: debug1: Authentications that can continue: publickey,gssapi-with-mic,password Permission denied, please try again. fmain@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx's password: debug1: Authentications that can continue: publickey,gssapi-with-mic,password Permission denied, please try again. fmain@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx's password: debug1: Authentications that can continue: publickey,gssapi-with-mic,password debug1: No more authentication methods to try. Permission denied (publickey,gssapi-with-mic,password). The debugging comments are all the same when I successfully log in to root, except for everything beyond "root@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx's password:" of course. I checked, and all relevent /devs (on the the remote machine) have 666 privs minimum, so that's not the problem. The remote machine's /etc/ssh/sshd_config file looks like this: (with comment lines stripped) Protocol 2 SyslogFacility AUTHPRIV PasswordAuthentication yes ChallengeResponseAuthentication no GSSAPIAuthentication yes GSSAPICleanupCredentials yes UsePAM yes AcceptEnv LANG LC_CTYPE LC_NUMERIC LC_TIME LC_COLLATE LC_MONETARY LC_MESSAGES AcceptEnv LC_PAPER LC_NAME LC_ADDRESS LC_TELEPHONE LC_MEASUREMENT AcceptEnv LC_IDENTIFICATION LC_ALL X11Forwarding no Subsystem sftp /usr/libexec/openssh/sftp-server I even tried adding "AllowUsers root fmain" to it, and restarting the SSH Daemon, but was no help. >From my googling, there are plenty of people with the opposite problem (can log in, just not through root). And I tried everything that the few who seemed to have this same problem had done. I've exhausted my searching options and don't know where to go from here. Anyone have any ideas? Thanks for any help that you may be able to provide, Yarin
