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"Illegal user admin" error in /var/log/auth.log

Article ID: 6842 
Last Review: Nov,3 2009
Author: Eugeniya Lyakh
Last updated by: Eugeniya Lyakh APPLIES TO:
  • Parallels H-Sphere

Symptoms

When you check /var/log/auth.log file you see that it abounds with errors of the following type:

Feb 27 08:32:17 localhost sshd[30614]: Illegal user admin from [CP's IP]
Feb 27 08:32:17 localhost sshd[30614]: Failed none for illegal user admin from [CP's IP] port 48170

Resolution

Go to E.MANAGER >> Physical Servers. Click the name of your physical CP server. Most likely you will find an empty login field there which should be corrected.


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