[ale] Weird ssh problem

[jc.lightner at comcast.net]

In Putty's left pane under Session is Logging options.  He can turn on full
logging on his end.

Almost every time I ran into ssh/sftp/scp issues it turned out that the
target account was NOT actually secure.   Since ssh is supposed to be secure
it blithely rejects login attempts.

Check the permission of the .ssh in the server user's directory, then the
server user's directory itself then any parents of that directory.   If any
of those are iffy ssh will simply not work. 

What was said initially seemed a bit confusing.   At first it seemed you
were saying you were able to login to the target user account via ssh but
then at another point it sounded as if it were not the same account but
rather a similar one.   

If your server is behind a firewall or load balancer it is common for those
to have been setup to reject traffic from many countries.   Ideally they are
even more restrictive than that.   It was common for me to have to engage
our network or security engineers to create specific rules for a source IP
(i.e NOT all of Vietnam but the IP from which he originates.   

-----Original Message-----
From: Ale <ale-bounces at ale.org> On Behalf Of Dev Null via Ale
Sent: Tuesday, February 4, 2025 10:22 PM
To: ale at ale.org
Cc: Dev Null <devnull at iamdevnull.info>
Subject: Re: [ale] Weird ssh problem

"Failed: none" (as opposed to keyboard-interactive or publickey) sounds to
me like a PAM-related configuration error.

I second the suggestion of seeing what a `ssh -vvv username at hostname' log
from the remote end.
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