Re: access denied - SSH

From: Pam (pam052_at_centurytel.net)
Date: 10/09/05

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    Date: Sun, 9 Oct 2005 07:51:08 -0500

    well, I AM the site admin - I maintain all these hosts on a reseller acct -
    so I am able to log in to the control panels for each site and do various
    admin things - as well as log into the main reseller control panel.

    the reseller I use is buywebhost.com ... and yes, they say that >I< am
    supposed to log in to putty with each site name and password of each domain
    and then do the following:

    You need to use SSH2 client such as putty.
    You can download it from http://buywebhost.net/putty.exe
    See the attachment.

    You must login using site administrator username .
    In this case, it should be pam@mesharet.com

    Once you login, type the following command
    cd /var/spool/mail
    ls -l

    ln -s username username@domainname

    eg :-
    ln -s pam pam@mesharet.com

    I have done the setting for mesharet.com

    ---------------
    They EASILY did it for 2 of my accts but say I have to do it for the rest of
    them. I am so frustrated,, and KNOW that they are supposed to take care of
    this problem on their end...AND I have had it and will be looking for
    another reseller acct that is based in US ..they are in Malaysia (just found
    that out!) and they have been pretty arrogant in the past when something
    goes down or doesn't work - and while I admit that I'm no techie...I'm not
    stupid either. Something ain't smellen right here. I'm thinking that the
    remote server does not allow ME to log into their acct...or something... if
    anyone has any ideas, I'd sure appreciate it.

    "Unruh" <unruh-spam@physics.ubc.ca> wrote in message
    news:diaafr$fkd$1@nntp.itservices.ubc.ca...
    > "Pam" <pam052@centurytel.net> writes:
    >
    >>I'm having a horrible 2 days - yesterday am all the mail from my domains
    >>was
    >>cut off - I thought it was due to the level3 vs Cogent deal...however,
    >>after
    >>that was resolved (I guess) none of my mail still came in .. sooo I
    >>contacted the server that hosts my domains and after a full day of going
    >>back and forth with him and with my dsl provider (century tel) my server
    >>says I have to download putty.exe (which I did) and change some commands
    >>in
    >>the var/spool/mail folder...geez. what do I pay him for...anyway, after
    >>downloading putty, and logging in to the SSH - I put in the site admin
    >>name
    >>but when it asks for the password...the little green box just sits there -
    >>it doesn't move when I type the password - then when I hit return, it just
    >>says access denied....
    >
    > passwords are NOT supposed to be displayed. That stupid windows trick of
    > replacing the letters with * tells anyone around exactly how long your
    > password is-- information which can help attack your password.
    >
    > Anyway it sounds like you entered teh wrong password, the wrong username
    > or
    > the remote system is not set up to allow logins.
    >
    > But what does logging on with ssh have to do with your mail problems? And
    > why in the world would YOU be putting in the dite admin's name?
    >
    >
    >
    >>can someone tell me what I'm doing wrong and how to get it to accept the
    >>password?
    >
    > Type in the correct username and correct password.
    >
    >
    >>I'm on xp pro sp2 - dsl .... thanks
    >
    >>pam
    >
    >

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