login attempt to nonexistent user

Mon Oct 10 02:48:55 WST 2005

On Sun, 9 Oct 2005, Yan Seiner wrote:

> yan at poseidon:~/.ssh$ ssh pizza -l root
> root at pizza's password:
> Permission denied, please try again.

[snip]

> and on the dropbear server I get the message 'Login attempt for
> non-existent user from 192.168.128.222:nnnn

That would indicate there's no 'root' user in /etc/passwd and/or some
/etc/shadow cludge.

> What's going on?  I have /etc/passwd set up....

Permissions on various files may need checking too.

> I'm not getting any errors or anything from dropbear.

Do you see anything useful if you run:

  $ ssh -vvv pizza -l root

Cheers,
Cristian

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