Mac – Can’t ssh into another mac on same network, wrong password

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I've got two macs on my home network, both are enabled for Remote Login.
From mac1 I open terminal and enter "ssh mac2.local". I am prompted for the password but the when I try the password I use everyday on mac2 I'm told that's the wrong password.

Is the password supposed to be some sort of RSA thingy? Is it not just my account login password? Where do I get the password?

thanks

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Have you checked your System Preferences > Sharing to make sure that Remote Login is enabled and that your account is in the Allowed users list?

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Allow me to answer myself as I found a resolution.

If PasswordAuthentication no doesn't work on its own (and I read in some situations it may) make sure to uncomment and set to "no" this:

UsePAM no

Kudos for this resolution go to Mac OS X Hints - http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20050815135941513&lsrc=osxh.

Remotely SSH to IP address in home network

One way to do what you want here is to add a port mapping in your Airport Extreme that points a non-standard remote port (e.g. 8022) to port 22 on your local 10.0.1.104 machine. Then, you can specify a different port in your SSH client (e.g. '-p 8022') to gain remote access.

You could also SSH into 10.0.1.100 first, and then SSH into 10.0.1.104 from that machine.

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