Re: Strange OpenSSH error

From: strube@physik3.gwdg.XPAM.de
Date: 12/21/01 

From: strube@physik3.gwdg.XPAM.de
Date: 21 Dec 2001 11:42:26 GMT

vkd <vkd79@yahoo.nospam.com> wrote:
> Dec 18 15:23:22 smk sshd[4119]: pam_setcred: error Permission denied
>
> I am getting the above error message on my Sparc Solaris 7 box. Sessions are
> granted and everything seems to work but the log is full of these messages.
> What could be causing this?

This is "normal" when it happens on closing the session. Then the removal of
the credentials is tried, but with uid=0 instead of the uid of the user,
which does not work in Solaris. This should not matter except when using
Kerberos. If you like, get my patch:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openssh-unix-dev&m=100643017215589&w=2 

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 Hans Werner Strube          strube@physik3.gwdg.XPAM.de (remove .XPAM)
 Drittes Physikalisches Institut,  Univ. Goettingen
 Buergerstr. 42-44,   D-37073 Goettingen,   Germany

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