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Clemens Fischer <ino@despammed.com> writes:

> well, i thought the OP might have tried to access an account without
> switching to a "normal" user under unix.  if the remote sshd is so
> configured, it silently rejects people if the accessor is root.

Interesting.  I've always used "ssh jrl@host" as root and expected
that to work...  Now I know where it might fail.

kai
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