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Just go into the BlueOnyx GUI and reset the blocks. That's the quickest and easiest way to test if its PAM_ABL doing the blocking.
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<br />But if you're using the same computer you tested the FTP from - change the IP, so you can get in.
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<br />Chuck
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From: "George F. Nemeyer" <tigerwolf@tigerden.com>
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To: BlueOnyx General Mailing List <blueonyx@mail.blueonyx.it>
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Sent: Thu, 6 Dec 2012 19:32:57 -0500 (EST)
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Subject: [BlueOnyx:11768] Re: SSH vs ProFTP..
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<br />> On Fri, 7 Dec 2012, Frank Peels wrote:
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> Yesterday I tried to get FTP+TLS for my box. It played around with
the
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> proftp.conf file and today I [WINDOWS-1252?]can’t connect with SSH no
longer. I get
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> "ssh_exchange_identification: Connection closed by remote
[WINDOWS-1252?]host”. Not
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> sure if the one has anything to do with the other. Actually at the
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> moment I [WINDOWS-1252?]don’t have a clue what happened. Anyone knows what
went wrong
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> for me and how to fix it ?
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When I saw a similar SSH error, it was actually PAM having decided that
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there'd been too many bad login attempts and was locking out any attempt
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to connect.
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If it blocks, it will also prevent access to SSH and anything else
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going through PAM from the IP involved.
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You *could* try connecting to the box from a different IP if you're going
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in via ethernet.
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As I recall, I eventually had to use a serial terminal console and boot
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the box into single user mode and then use the PAM tools (pam_abl, I
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think) to force reset of the PAM blocking database and login counters.
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It wasn't fun.
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Good luck!
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=^_^= Tigerwolf
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