[CLUE-Tech] login problems

[mike havlicek]

All file perms look ok 

-Mike


--- Angelo Bertolli <angelo at freeshell.org> wrote:

> 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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