SSH won't accept passwords

[volvoguy]

Hey everybody,

I've been trying to help out a friend install and use Ubuntu, but
unfortunately he lives thousands of miles away. Not usually a big
deal, but when you run into snags it can be really frustrating.

Anyway, he installed Warty from the pressed CD's and for the most part
everything worked as it should. One of the things he was impressed
that I was doing is forwarding an X session via SSH to my iBook. . The
only thing I've ever done to get this to work is install
"openssh-server". He's also done that and neither of us (locally or
remotely - and yes, we opened up / forwarded those ports on our
routers) are able to log into the machine via SSH. We get a
username/password prompt, but it never accepts them.

I would have attributed this to internet funk or a glitch in our
router/firewall setup, but the fact that he can't log in to the
machine on his own LAN has really got me stumped. He's definitely able
to log in to the machine directly - as we've been adding/upgrading
software through the course of the night.

Does anyone have any suggestions about where to look next? More
troubleshooting steps?

Also [shameless plug], I added a few more SVG desktops to my website.
Feel free to give me feedback and/or other ideas that take advantage
of vector graphics and all the fun transparency stuff. :)

-- 
Aaron

Ubuntu SVG Artwork - www.volvoguy.net/ubuntu
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