ssh problem in mavericks

[linuxophile]

Hello guys,
I have a minor problem:
after upgrading to 10.9 I cannot ssh from outside.
In fact I cannot ssh into 127.0.0.1 (i.e. even locally). I am prompted with password: but after three times I enter it, it gives an error (something about public key).

Remote login is enabled.

I have found that admin accounts do not have the same problem (so the solution is: make myself admin and then it works).

Still I see no reason why. It worked before for regular accounts as well.
I imagine it is some permission issue (but repairing does nothing).
I prefer to have my regular account without admin privileges.

It is conceivable I need to change some configuration in /etc/ but I have long forgotten these things.
Any ideas?

 

[linuxophile]

Solution found

Hi there: just in case someone else lands here.

I was silly (but Apple was too): in the "Remote Login" pref pane there is a list of authorized users.
When upgrading this list is reset to only admins:
I did not notice it at first (and assumed that all the settings were migrated in the upgrade; well, not all!).


Therefore it suffices to re-add yourself (and whoever else) to the list.

 

[scaredpoet]

First: Great to know you got the problem resolved.

Second: THANK YOU for posting the solution to your own thread! So many times I've googled an issue, found someone else with the same problem in a forum like this, only to see it ended with "never mind, fixed it," and never posting what they did to fix it!

More people who end up self-solving need to do exactly what you did.