Another ssh problem

Cameron Simpson cs at zip.com.au
Mon Feb 4 23:07:41 UTC 2008


On 04Feb2008 16:05, Aaron Konstam <akonstam at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
| I have 2 machines that are essentially F7 machines. From machine A I
| cannot sftp to machine B as myself. But sftp does work to Machine B if I
| am root. 
| How can this be explained?
| 
| To be honest I have to reveal that Machine A is an olpc XO machine
| without passwds on any user including root. Machine B is my f7 laptop.

You would need to examine /var/log/secure on machineB for diagnostic
errors. I would guess directory or file permission problems.
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