Re: Help with "Go away, you don't exist" error message

Thanks for this pointer.

Although this web page mentions the error message, it does so in the  
context of complaining about existence error messages.  FWIW, it  
seems to me that SSH has a good excuse for using the time-honored  
message here, lest it leak information about the existence (or not)  
of user accounts on the server machine.

Your suggestion of an updated or locked passwd db seems to make  
sense.  I have reservations about because a) all subsequent attempts  
to connect by this user fail after the initial failure -- which  
suggests that it is not a transitory problem, and b) there appears to  
be no activity on the system of any kind between the last successful  
and first failing connection attempt.

The theory does seem worth investigating though.  How would I go  
about testing it?

Thanks again for your response.

-- Dave

On Jul 5, 2008, at 12:14 AM, Patrick Webster wrote:

> http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/web/library/wa-cranky37.html
>
> Seems to be relevant. Maybe the password db is being updated or  
> locked.
>
> -Patrick