login attempt for nonexistent user

[Andre Haupt]

Luciano Miguel Ferreira Rocha wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 19, 2007 at 05:14:36PM +0100, Andre Haupt wrote:
>   
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I am using dropbear on an embedded arm board. I compiled with MULTI=1.
>>
>> I start the server with ./dropbear as root.
>>
>> When i try to connect with ssh root at 192.168.0.2 a login prompt appears.
>> The password i enter at the prompt is not accepted by dropbear.
>> It complains with the following error message in /var/log/messages:
>>
>> login attempt for nonexistent user from 192.168.0.3:32804
>>
>> I am pretty sure the user root exists as i login via serial console as 
>> such. Telnet does work too, whereas i have similar problems to get bftpd 
>> to work.
>>
>>     
> Check if you have /etc/nsswitch.conf and /lib/libnss_*.
>
>   
That was *exactly* the cause of my problems. Thank you so much!


Best regards,

Abdre