Re: [Jailkit-users] SSH Problems

[Olivier Sessink]

Jon Gullidge wrote:
> Hi I've recently been trying to get Jailkit to work and I've run accross
> a problem or 2.
> Everything works swimmingly when I SU to the jailed user. It jails it
> perfectly, presents me with my bash CLI, etc etc. Now when I login via
> SSH it rejects the password. Looking at messages, it looks like it
> dislikes the password:
> 
> Nov  8 08:42:30 crispycrisp sshd[17695]: error: PAM: Authentication
> failure for javadk from 213-211-62.netrun.cytanet.com.cy
> Nov  8 08:42:30 crispycrisp sshd[17695]: Failed keyboard-interactive/pam
> for javadk from 213.7.211.62 port 61186 ssh2
> 
> Now I have check the password, and re-set the password several times so
> I know that the password being typed is correct, yet it still doesn't
> work. I try with the jk_lsh but I couldn't even sudo in, but I'd prefer
> bash anyway. So I'm wondering what's going wrong? Each time I have
> changed the password I've re-copied the passwd file over, even though it
> doesn't need to be, just to make sure.
> I'm stumped. Any ideas what it could be?

change the shell in the real /etc/passwd from jk_chrootsh to bash and
see if you can log in. If that also doesn't work it's not related to
jailkit but something in your sshd or pam config.

regards,
        Olivier