login attempt for nonexistent user

[Luciano Miguel Ferreira Rocha]

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_*.

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