From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Marcus Furlong Subject: Re: Some users locked out of ssh and sftp? Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2005 03:06:07 +0200 Message-ID: References: <5.1.0.14.1.20050228220147.01f4dec8@celine> <20050301162252.34857.qmail@web53710.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org Eve Emshoff wrote: > Thus far, I've run across 1 user who can't sftp OR > SSH. He's entirely locked out, despite having the > correct username and password. He appears to be set up > the same as well the others. > > Is there a file or some such I should edit and/or > check to ensure he can get access? Anything to point > me to in terms of what I can check in that he may > *not* be set up the same as everyone else? Check if there is something like . ~/.bashrc or source .bashrc in his .bash_profile, and if there is, then comment it out. If that doesn't work, try temporarily renaming or deleting .bashrc and .bash_profile, and then try to ssh again. Marcus. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs