SFTP password problem

Hi Everyone,
I've just begun setting up Server with port forwarding through my Airport Time capsule. Everything works when I SFTP as myself. from terminal, either SFTPing to [email protected] and entering my apssword lets me in... as well as simply SFTPing to 123.456.789.000 and entering my password.
problem is, I created another account. I created one account through "users" in system settings, and I tried to create another account within Server. both accounts I gave administrator priveleges to, just for good measure.
both accounts come back saying incorrect password. my spider sense is telling me that it might have something to do with the way MY username is configured -- in my previous experience, I shouldn't be able to simply ftp to the raw IP without a user@ and have it ask me for a password.
Thanks,
Aemilia

So if I understand this correctly, you now have two accounts with the same short name? You'll want to resolve that duplication; that's not something that works well, and all sorts of stuff can get tangled.
If you don't have duplicated shortnames here, then there's something else going on. Start by confirming the remote account has ssh access and a valid and accessible login home directory; that's all necessary for ssh (and sftp, which is based on ssh) to work.
Also have a look at the system logs for any related errors.
Also consider setting up certificate-based logins for ssh (and sftp), as those are more secure than passwords, and particularly given the prevalence of brute-force ssh attacks on the network.

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WRT110 WIFI password problem

Hi Everyone,
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hi,
This is with refernece to my earlier post, i can now login as a DBA thry OS authentication.
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Please review the document link sent earlier
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The current problems I'm experiecing with my password started back in the summer last year (2014). What would happen is that, whilst on my PC, Outlook would, out of the blue, suddenly request that I enter my password - which it already had, of course. But when I did renter it, it still kept on requesting it and refused to send or receive any email. I then turned to my iPhone, and it too was no-longer able to send or receive email, claiming an invalid password.
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I've raised this issue via the BT helpline with two of their engineers now, and despite their best efforts and assurances, the problem is still present and as bad as ever. I can't carry on like this and it's affecting, not just my social life, but my working life too.
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Professor wrote:
The current problems I'm experiecing with my password started back in the summer last year (2014). What would happen is that, whilst on my PC, Outlook would, out of the blue, suddenly request that I enter my password - which it already had, of course. But when I did renter it, it still kept on requesting it and refused to send or receive any email. I then turned to my iPhone, and it too was no-longer able to send or receive email, claiming an invalid password.
I then went onto my BT home page and accessed my BT Yahoo email via the internet, which was still working. However, after a while I would even find myself blocked from BT Yahoo account - BT requesting that I reset my password. I would do that, and for a while, Outlook, iPhone and BT Internet all worked fine. A few weeks later however, we have a reapeat performance - Outlook stops working, iPhone stops working and I'm back having to use the BT Yahoo website. I reset my password again. This scenario has played out numerous time over the last 8 - 10 months.
I became so frustrated in Jamuary this year, that I contacted the BT email helpline and an engineer (who I have to say had very little patience with me, regarding the problems I was having as self-inflicted) eventually gave me a new password and reset it for me at their end, telling me this would cure all my failed password problems - and it did, for a while. The whole fiasco kicked off again several weeks later. Again another BT engineer reset my password at the beginning of April this year - it lasted a week before the dreaded Outlook dialog, "Enter Username and Password" appeared and my iPhone stopped receiving - again.
Recently passwords have been lasting for only a few days and it's not been unsually to have to reset my password several times in one day. It's becoming a nightmare. I need a password to last more than a few hours, days or even weeks. I need Outlook working. I need to be able to use my iPhone to send and receive email, not worrying about when the next "failed password" error message is going to appear - forcing me back onto the BT Yahoo website.
I've raised this issue via the BT helpline with two of their engineers now, and despite their best efforts and assurances, the problem is still present and as bad as ever. I can't carry on like this and it's affecting, not just my social life, but my working life too.
Does anyone have a longterm fix for this problem? And am I alone in this experience?
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I have run into a brick wall trying to make the secure
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I have confirmed the fingerprint (technically not required)
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Using FileZilla and the same parameters, I can make the SFTP
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Yet in CF8 on my CrystalTech hosted account, I can't. I am
working with their support team, but have been unsuccessful for
several days.
Has anyone actually ever done this in real life? I am falling
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[SOLVED] avahi sftp mount problem

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i hope i'm posting this in the right subforum (the other abvious choice would have been networking), but since this is likely to be a configuration issue, i'll post here. sorry, i'm kind of a newbie here.
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yesterday, i've messed around a bit with my rc.conf, and now everytime i try to mount a mac share via avahi/sftp, i only see nautilus's 'opening *insert-share-name-here*', and a certain process (gvfsd-sftp) eats all my processor resources. the share never actually gets mounted. i'm guessing some kernel module is not loaded, or there's a problem with the order of my daemons.
i've searched around in on the wiki, on the forums and in google, but to no avail. everything is supposed to be in order. if someone can help, please do.
modules array from rc.conf:
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DAEMONS=(syslog-ng dbus hal crond alsa !network rpcbind nfs-common nfs-server netfs ntpd avahi-daemon networkmanager gdm)
thank you,
bamdad
Last edited by bamdad (2010-04-03 12:01:35)

update:
it seems, rc.conf has nothing to do with the problem. i'll leave it here for reference, but i tried logging in to gnome as root, and voilá, i could connect without a problem. so there had to be something messed up with my gnome settings. i had a crash yesterday, during which i was logged in to the other computer.
so i popped open Accessories>Passwords and Encryption keys from the gnome menu and deleted the [email protected] and [email protected] (interestingly, there wasn't an [email protected], and the problem was resolved.
my guess is that the crash somehow messed up my stored login information, and thus gvfsd-sftp went crazy trying to authenticate. if you happen to have the same problem, try the solution above.
Last edited by bamdad (2010-04-03 12:07:18)

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