Problems with shell users

[William Hooper]

Rolf Berkenbosch said:
> Below you find the error:
>
> [root at groningen mail]# ssh -v -v -l testtest localhost
[snip]
> testtest at localhost's password:
> debug2: we sent a password packet, wait for reply
> debug1: Authentication succeeded (password).
> debug1: channel 0: new [client-session]
> debug2: channel 0: send open
> debug1: Entering interactive session.
> debug2: callback start
> debug2: ssh_session2_setup: id 0
> debug1: channel 0: request pty-req
> debug1: channel 0: request shell
> debug2: callback done
> debug1: channel 0: open confirm rwindow 0 rmax 32768
> debug1: channel_free: channel 0: client-session, nchannels 1
> Connection to localhost closed by remote host.
> Connection to localhost closed.
> debug1: Transferred: stdin 0, stdout 0, stderr 81 bytes in 0.6 seconds
> debug1: Bytes per second: stdin 0.0, stdout 0.0, stderr 131.3
> debug1: Exit status -1
> [root at groningen mail]#

Since the connection was "closed by remote host", I would start by
checking out what sshd is doing:

Stop the sshd daemon:

# /usr/sbin/service stop sshd

Start sshd in debug mode:

# /usr/sbin/sshd -dd

Now try to connect and see what the server's debug output says.

-- 
William Hooper