[ale] access denied error

[Pete Hardie]

There is some setting to prevent root access remotely (only local
logins) - perhaps your account was flagged as a similar account?

On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 10:44, mike barnes <mdb3624 at gmail.com> wrote:
> First, question,  we thought the same thing so, we used the IP address and
> still had the same issue.
>
> The administrator then went to his machine and was able to log into the box.
> He then was able to set up an account for me which is now working.
>
> He was not able to explain though why, he could only use the login/password
> on his machine.
>
> Thanks
> Mike
>
> On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 10:18 AM, Jay Lozier <jslozier at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On 12/16/2011 09:42 AM, mike barnes wrote:
>>
>> I am trying to log into a linux box (not sure what distro is) using putty
>> and ssh. When I enter the the login id given to me by my administrator I am
>> immediately getting "access denied" before I have a chance to enter my
>> password.
>>
>> Can someone enlighten me as to what is going on with this?
>>
>> Thanks
>> Mike Barnes
>>
>>
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>> Are you using the correct IP address? I have seen similar problems when
>> logging into a VPN connection with wrong IP address.
>>
>> Not sure if this is true with SSH, but could you be using the wrong
>> security settings/protocol? Another quirky problem I have seen with VPN's
>>
>> --
>> Jay Lozier
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>>
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