Thread: user password? for ssh to the non-root account
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dov is offline dov
2010-09-22 , 10:49
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Read wotevah's reply, who answered this question. The user account is locked and need to be unlocked with "passwd -u user". You can then connect to it.

Originally Posted by Pigro View Post
[I]My problem is that, when I then try to ssh into n900 over the open reverse tunnel from an xp command prompt using:

Code:
ssh -p 19999 user@localhost
my rsa key is being ignored and I get prompted for user@localhost's password - which I can't supply as there isn't one (but that's not the point, I don't understand why I'm even being asked for a password whren it should be authorising me via the authorized_keys entry).
 

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