Quote:
Originally Posted by aditya3098
Oh, by "password was rejected" I ment the password came out as invalid
Code:
aditya@aditya-desktop:~$ ssh root@192.168.1.5
root@192.168.1.5's password:
Permission denied, please try again.
root@192.168.1.5's password:
Permission denied, please try again.
root@192.168.1.5's password:
Permission denied (publickey,password).
aditya@aditya-desktop:~$
I never used pubkey auth.
I am guessing it's something to do with the /etc/shadow file |
Ah, So, I mis-understood.
The ssh server does use /etc/password and /etc/shadow for "password authentication".