Ultra6 with RAIDiator 4.2.19.I've installed "enableSSH" and the port is open. Using putty from Windows7 gets me the login prompt, but using admin/password closes the ssh window immediately. If I use the wrong password, it prompts me for a retry. I have a couple of addons, but disabling them all did not help. I have never been able to ssh in (over a year). I have updated the firmware twice and reset a few times but the same thing always happens.Like this (used wrong password once as an example):login as: adminadmin@10.1.3.1's password:Access deniedadmin@10.1.3.1's password:auth.log says:Jan 3 14:27:48 NAS sshd[13121]: error: Could not load host key: /etc/ssh/ssh_host_dsa_keyJan 3 14:27:48 NAS sshd[13121]: WARNING: /etc/ssh/moduli does not exist, using fixed modulusJan 3 14:27:54 NAS sshd[13121]: (pam_unix) authentication failure; logname= uid=0 euid=0 tty=ssh ruser= rhost=10.1.3.26 user=adminJan 3 14:27:55 NAS sshd[13121]: Failed password for admin from 10.1.3.26 port 51776 ssh2Jan 3 14:27:59 NAS sshd[13121]: Accepted password for admin from 10.1.3.26 port 51776 ssh2Any advice?

It's called EnableRootSSH.You need to login as 'root' (the superuser) not 'admin'. 'root' password is initially set to be the same as the 'admin' password. However if you've done an OS/firmware re-install the password the password should have been reset to 'netgear1'.After logging in you can change the password using the passwd command:MDGM-NAS:~# passwdEnter new UNIX password: Retype new UNIX password: passwd: password updated successfully

Thanks, but I wanted the non-root login method. I have also tried my user account names, but they all disconnect as well. Or do you mean that there is no way to login except as root? If so, then I wonder why support did not tell me to enable root access to login during a recent support ticket? I guess I should have asked them at that time, but I had other things on my mind.

What add-on did you install exactly? To enable SSH for login as a user at least initially you need to enable root login.For support access there are different addons and even a debug mode.

You can't login as anyone but root, since noone but root has a valid shell set.If you login as admin you are presented a shell consisting of a boolean false value, which is pretty much useless and will cause your ssh client to close the session immediately.You could change that to allow other users ssh access.This command allows shell access to the user with the name: USERNAME with the same password as it was set up using frontview.usermod -s/bin/bash USERNAMEThis should however only be done if you are sure that you need shell access for that user. You can do many many bad things with shell access.

Ok, thanks! That explains the failure of the shell. Obviously I am not a *nix guru.I had thought that enablessh was all that was needed for non-root access, but there is not much documentation on that. I guess that VMware has some proprietary way to ssh in without EnableRootSSH being installed.I had thought that there was a way to ssh in without doing it as root, but now that I know more, going in as root is acceptible. I have installed EnableRootSSH and that works fine.Thanks for the explanation!

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mdgm-ntgr
NETGEAR Employee Retired
Jan 03, 2012
It's called EnableRootSSH.

You need to login as 'root' (the superuser) not 'admin'. 'root' password is initially set to be the same as the 'admin' password. However if you've done an OS/firmware re-install the password the password should have been reset to 'netgear1'.

After logging in you can change the password using the passwd command:

MDGM-NAS:~# passwd
Enter new UNIX password:
Retype new UNIX password:
passwd: password updated successfully
jeff36
Aspirant
Jan 04, 2012
Thanks, but I wanted the non-root login method. I have also tried my user account names, but they all disconnect as well.

Or do you mean that there is no way to login except as root? If so, then I wonder why support did not tell me to enable root access to login during a recent support ticket? I guess I should have asked them at that time, but I had other things on my mind.
mdgm-ntgr
NETGEAR Employee Retired
Jan 04, 2012
What add-on did you install exactly? To enable SSH for login as a user at least initially you need to enable root login.

For support access there are different addons and even a debug mode.
Mastacheata
Aspirant
Jan 05, 2012
You can't login as anyone but root, since noone but root has a valid shell set.
If you login as admin you are presented a shell consisting of a boolean false value, which is pretty much useless and will cause your ssh client to close the session immediately.
You could change that to allow other users ssh access.

This command allows shell access to the user with the name: USERNAME with the same password as it was set up using frontview.
usermod -s/bin/bash USERNAME

This should however only be done if you are sure that you need shell access for that user. You can do many many bad things with shell access.
jeff36
Aspirant
Jan 05, 2012
Ok, thanks! That explains the failure of the shell. Obviously I am not a *nix guru.
I had thought that enablessh was all that was needed for non-root access, but there is not much documentation on that. I guess that VMware has some proprietary way to ssh in without EnableRootSSH being installed.

I had thought that there was a way to ssh in without doing it as root, but now that I know more, going in as root is acceptible. I have installed EnableRootSSH and that works fine.

Thanks for the explanation!
TeknoJnky
Hero
Jan 05, 2012
jeff36 wrote:
I guess that VMware has some proprietary way to ssh in without EnableRootSSH being installed.

huhwhaaat?

vmware does not and should not have some proprietary way to ssh in.

why would you expect vmware to need ssh?
jeff36
Aspirant
Jan 11, 2012
> vmware does not and should not have some proprietary way to ssh in.
> why would you expect vmware to need ssh?

Because they told me to run enablessh, give them the MAC address of the NAS and make my router forward a port to the NAS ssh port. That's all that they needed to access the nas, somehow. I had not run EnableRootSSH at that time.
mdgm-ntgr
NETGEAR Employee Retired
Jan 11, 2012
They made a special add-on called EnableSSH? Never heard of that one before. The add-on they gave you would've been one for support use only as the only SSH add-on enabling SSH access for users is EnableRootSSH as I mentioned above.
jeff36
Aspirant
Jan 13, 2012
Sorry, I made a typo. It's the one mentioned on the bottom of this page called ToggleSSH:
http://www.readynas.com/?page_id=608
mdgm-ntgr
NETGEAR Employee Retired
Jan 13, 2012
Ah. As indicated on that page and I mentioned above the ToggleSSH add-on is for support access to the ReadyNAS over SSH only. It enables them to remotely login as root (the superuser).