[ale] access denied error

[Jay Lozier]

On 12/16/2011 09:42 AM, mike barnes wrote:
> I am trying to log into a linux box (not sure what distro is) using 
> putty and ssh. When I enter the the login id given to me by my 
> administrator I am immediately getting "access denied" before I have a 
> chance to enter my password.
>
> Can someone enlighten me as to what is going on with this?
>
> Thanks
> Mike Barnes
>
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Are you using the correct IP address? I have seen similar problems when 
logging into a VPN connection with wrong IP address.

Not sure if this is true with SSH, but could you be using the wrong 
security settings/protocol? Another quirky problem I have seen with VPN's

-- 
Jay Lozier
jslozier at gmail.com

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