Login attempt for nonexistent user on Alpine Linux

[Daniel.]

Can you log in with another user? The root login may be disabled by
security reasons.

2017-12-01 13:01 GMT-02:00 Szabolcs Nagy <nsz at port70.net>:

> * Hugo Genesse <hugo.genesse at polymtl.ca> [2017-12-01 04:51:08 +0000]:
> > I've been trying to use dropbear (compiled myself statically with
> > ./configure; make STATIC=1) on a Alpine Linux Docker container (Linux
> > 4.13.12-1-ARCH) with the latest Alpine Docker image (3.6 if I'm not
> > mistaken). I run dropbear like this: "./dropbear -R" and can't login with
> > proper credentials. With the "-E" switch I get the following:
> >
> >  /root/dropbear -R -E
> > [59] Dec 01 04:31:32 Running in background
> > [60] Dec 01 04:31:36 Child connection from <IP>
> > [60] Dec 01 04:31:36 Login attempt for nonexistent user from <IP>
> >
>
> i think you can use -vvv to see more detailed debug messages
>



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