I'm trying to add a user account to our OSXS 10.5.4 server. All
this user is allowed to do is ssh in. What is the best way to add
such an account? Shouldn't going through System Preferences ->
Users be sufficient? When I add the user account this way and try
to ssh into it, the password is not recognized and the system log
says:
Jul 23 21:30:38 /usr/sbin/PasswordService[62]: client response
doesn't match what we generated
Jul 23 21:30:38: --- last message repeated 1 time ---
Jul 23 21:30:38 emond[72]: Host at by will be blocked for at least
15.00 minutes
Jul 23 21:30:38 emond[1048]: DoRunAction (child): setting the uid/
gid to 0/0
What am I doing wrong?
A little more info on this...
Im trying to create a local user on our server. I go into Workgroup
Manager, authenticate to /Local/Default, then click on New User, and
fill out the username (jsmith) and password fields and click Save.
It appears to work. But when attempting to log in as that user, the
password is not accepted. The log file has this:
Jul 24 10:32:58 emond[72]: Host at by will be blocked for at least
15.00 minutes
Jul 24 10:32:58 emond[5760]: DoRunAction (child): setting the uid/
gid to 0/0
Jul 24 10:32:59 emond[72]: Host at jsmith will be blocked for at
least 15.00 minutes
Jul 24 10:32:59 emond[5763]: DoRunAction (child): setting the uid/
gid to 0/0
Jul 24 10:32:59 emond[72]: Host at jsmith will be blocked for at
least 15.00 minutes
Jul 24 10:32:59 emond[5766]: DoRunAction (child): setting the uid/
gid to 0/0
Im no expert at this, so any words of advice will be most appreciated!
It appears OSXS is really confused. I just discovered that when I
attempt to log in to the new user account, the ownership of /Users
changes to that account!
Before:
$ ls -led /Users
drwxr-xr-x@ 16 root admin 544 July 24 10:32 /Users
After login attempt ('You are unable to log in to the user account
"jsmith" at this time'):
$ ls -led /Users
drwxr-xr-x@ 16 jsmith nobody 544 July 24 10:32 /Users
Odd thing is that jsmith is staff, not nobody.
Russ
