Is there a setting somewhere that overrides the user password for SSH? Whenever I try to login via password to my os x server I get an error message in secure.log ->
Failed password for < user > from < ip > port < port > ssh2
The password is correct, I can use it locally on the server. What is going on here? Logging in via public key works fine. If I enabled PAM, I just get a different version of the same message:
error: PAM: permission denied for < user > from < client IP > via < server IP >
I am a dunce when it comes to server related things. Could someone tell me what I should be looking for? Nothing strange is output from running ssh -vvv
-d
option so that it produces more info into syslog? Maybe you get more hints then.launchctl stop com.openssh.sshd
work for you? Else dolaunchctl list
to see the available services. Restart it later when your test are done.