SSH (is up and runing) is not letting me in.

I have direct root disabled but the user is in the usergroup and I logged in with user/password fine. I type su -l and it asks for root password of course, typed that and enter...but then nothing happens just breaks a new line and no text.

I enter a few times and get "bad message".

How do I fix this?

Fedora Core
cPanel/WHM

Hmm, I am kind of confused at your question. You say you disabled root login via ssh and when you try to ssh, it asks for root and you type it in and you get nothing. Am I right? If you disabled root access, then why are you trying to log in as root??

1. How are you trying to connect to your box? 'ssh user@your.box.ip.address'? (user=someone on the system other than root)

2. 'su -l' is not a valid command logging in to your box via ssh. I don't believe (at least it doesn't exist on my box) that there is an -l argument for su.

-twantrd

Please pay attention to what I said. I disalbed DIRECT root login but I added a user to the wheelgroup.

su -l is valid on my box

What is that '-l' ???
Do you need this '-l' ???
Try simply "su" or "su -"...

I have done that but same problem

Can someone please help

I belive your problem can be fixed by using the following:

ssh -l user@host

ssh assumes that you are trying to log in as root unless you specify which users you want.

Geez, trying to help and get bashed for it. First of all, I stated that I was confused at your problem because your title says "cannot login to ssh anymore". However, that is NOT your problem. Your problem is actually trying to 'su' as root once you have successfully logged in as a user.

Anywayz, I'm not really into bickering. Hmmm, for your problem....after you have tried:

su
su -
su - root

and if they were all unsuccessful, have you taken a look at /var/log/messages or /var/log/syslog to see if it reports anything?

-twantrd

lol sorry I did not mean to sound rude, just stating that I already posted it thats all I do appreciate your help

archangel... is ssh -l user@host literally username@host (host actually host or server hostname?)

/var/log/messages is empty and /var/log/syslog says "new file" when in edit mode.

Every time I run ssh -l user@host (replace user with actual username) it shows the usage command help list.

Chadi,

root is assumed when you use SSH like someone already stated.

Anyway, here is an example of what you could use as a line.

ssh chadi@server

You DON'T need the -l I stay away from using switch options by default anyway.

Also, since you are already successfully logged in using SSH as some user (like chadi)

maybe you should really look into the issue that su (switchuser) is related to your problem.


What OS are you using specifically?

Furthermore, when you say you dissable root from logging in... what explicitly did you do. Use the option PermitRootLogin and set that to "no"?

That's OK, I have done that on all my systems.

Try another user's login and see if that one works.

I believe that "su - root" can be prevented for certain users to even attempt. Nevermind the fact that you need a valid password to login as root with.

Also, check the sulog if you have one or maybe you have a log simply called secure

Try that.

If I can through in my two cents.

to dimndskier: chadi knows that there are requirements to su to root. He has mentioned the wheel group, which is often used to determine whether a user can su to root or not. I think there are other requirements too. On my system, I have no members of the wheel group, and yet I can su just fine. I'll look into it eventually.

to chadi: If I understand your question correctly about user@host, the host part can be anything that the ssh client can translate into an ip address. I know that dns and dirrect IP addresses both work. I don't know what other name spaces may or may not work.

ssh user@someplace.com
ssh user@127.0.0.1

Hope you figure it out.