Re: OpenSSH failed non-root login

From: Andy (unclemonty_at_gmail.com)
Date: 10/29/04 

Date: 28 Oct 2004 15:03:09 -0700

unclemonty@gmail.com (Andy) wrote in message news:<8a7f2cff.0410200157.6b611ef6@posting.google.com>...
> sshd version OpenSSH_3.6.1p2
> Distro Fedora Core 1
> Kernel 2.4.22-1.2199.nptl
>
> Hope someone can help with this, I've come to a full stop. Frequently
> sshd is denying any non-root logins. To be precise, it just
> disconnects the connecting client after the password is provided.
> After restarting sshd it works fine and root login always works,
> regardless.
>
> Any help anyone can offer would be much appreciated, I've drawn a
> blank on this one so far.
>
<snip>
>

I solved it. It was pam_limits trying to nice sshd, which is just
never going to happen properly. Disabling pam_limits (/etc/pam.d/sshd
/etc/pam.d/system-auth) with sshd solved this.

HTH others.

Andy.

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