[CLUE-Tech] login problems

[Angelo Bertolli]

finger the user, and look at /etc/passwd

Make sure you have a valid shell (/bin/bash) and that your home 
directory is readable and executable by that user.

Angelo

mike havlicek wrote:

>This one is pretty strange. I have a box that I have
>been testing that is running RH9 with updates as far
>as up2date would take them. It had been running "fine"
>for about 30 days and then all of a sudden I couldn't
>log in as a "normal" user using ssh. I will call the
>box in question target. From the box I am trying to
>login from I see:
>
>[havlicek at cartman havlicek]$ ssh target
>havlicek at target's password:
>Connection to target closed by remote host.
>Connection to target closed.
>[havlicek at cartman havlicek]$
>
>so it seems that target is taking the password and
>then logging me off immediately.
>
>On the target I see this in /var/log/messages :
>
>Oct 13 17:33:04 target sshd(pam_unix)[xxxxx]: session
>opened for user havlicek by (uid=511)
>
>If I turn on telnet I get similar behavior. Also
>lastlog -u havlicek on target seems to indicate that I
>did log in.
>
>If I try to login to the console as a normal user I am
>prompted for the password and then the login prompt
>resets. On the other hand if I try to login as root at
>the console it lets me in. I also tried allowing root
>login with sshd and it will let me ssh in as root ...
>
>I have also run sshd in debug mode and saved the
>output but it is pretty long.
>
>This has happened in the past and I have tried to
>login several times as a normal user at the console
>and it eventually results in losing any ability to
>login at the console. 
>
>At this point I have a root login and am trying to
>figure out how to restore and hopefully resolve this
>problem......
>
>-Mike 
>
>
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