Login Denied. Please check your login credentials

[Hp64rh]

Maybe I'm being incredibly dim, but I'm stumped.

When I ssh into my server, I can do su - vbox and use the password.

When I login using remotebox, I fill in the URL, vbox and same password, I get Login Denied.

In journalctl I see this line:

Aug 02 15:57:43 hostname vboxwebsrv[11140]: pam_tally(login:auth): user vbox (1001) tally 30, deny 3

Does anyone have any idea what is going on?

Thanks.

[Ian Chapman]

Looks to me like you're using pam_tally in your PAM stack. What this does is keep track of invalid/incorrect logins, then deny that account after so many failed attempts. I would guest from that output, there's 30 failed attempts and 3 is enough to deny a login.

If you log into the server, the command pam_tally or pam_tally2 is what you can use to reset the counter.

For reference, not a RemoteBox or VirtualBox issue.

[Hp64rh]

Thank Ian, that resolved it.