[Discuss] Unusual error message after tar ops

[bill.n1vux at gmail.com (Bill Ricker)]

Clue may be 'newgrp' which is rather late in the SSH connection, that's
invoked while spawning the login shell.

It sounds like the desired User in Passwd has U#:G# that does not match the
group memberships.
see https://askubuntu.com/questions/856057/newgrp-function#856069

(Alternatively, the group # on restored $HOME and .ssh  may be an invalid
but I don't think that would cause this precise message?)

// Bill R


On Tue, Jul 24, 2018 at 5:31 PM, Bill Horne <bill at horne.net> wrote:

> Thanks for reading this.
>
> I'm transitioning from one Ubuntu system to a new clone. Today, I used tar
> to move all my existing files from the "old" machine to the "new" one.
> Initial checks of the new machine showed the recent files that I moved, so
> I though it went well.
>
> However, when I tried to log into the new machine again after an hour or
> two, I'm getting an unusual error message.
>
> I'm able to log in using ssh with key-based authentication, but then I'm
> receiving a "password:" prompt. I enter what should be the password for the
> new machine, but then I get this message:
>
> Password:
> newgrp: failed to crypt password with previous salt: Invalid argument
> Connection to (New machine name) closed.
>
> All suggestion welcome, and thanks in advance.
>
> Bill
>
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