Login via Telnet but not ssh?

fantasygoat

fantasygoat

I'm setting up a new FreeBSD 8.0 box and I am having some really curious problems with adding users.

There is an existing user that I can log in with via telnet, but I cannot log in via ssh. I also tried adding a user and that user can't log in from either!

I've looked for the allowed username in various /etc files to no avail. I created the user with adduser and when I try to login I get the following in the messages log:

Code: 
sshd[20182]: error: PAM: authentication error for illegal user username from x.x.x.x

There's also no "AllowedUsers" entry in sshd_config. Any clues as to where I might start debugging this issue?
 
Same shell, permissions on home directory identical. Also, the one user can login via telnet, just not via ssh.
 
Few things to check I guess. Is /etc/pam.d/sshd changed?
Perhaps /etc/hosts.allow and/or /etc/hosts.deny?
 
fantasygoat said:
I created the user with adduser and when I try to login I get the following in the messages log:

Code: 
sshd[20182]: error: PAM: authentication error for illegal user username from x.x.x.x

There's also no "AllowedUsers" entry in sshd_config. Any clues as to where I might start debugging this issue?
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Check for all the sshd_config(5) possibilities that commonly generate that exact message: AllowUsers, DenyUsers, AllowGroups, DenyGroups.

Also check /etc/login.access for any uncommented directives.

Hopefully you haven't been tweaking your PAM configuration. (If you have, review that next.)
 
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