[Gllug] Debian SSH not letting root login anymore?

[Rich Walker]

Hi,

I recently upgraded one of our machines, and now can't do 

  ssh -X root at thoth 

to it any more.

Login as a normal user still works.

/var/log/auth.log suggests pam is causing problems:

Nov  9 15:42:31 thoth sshd[8093]: (pam_unix) authentication failure; logname= uid=0 euid=0 tty=ssh ruser= rhost=gateway.shadow.local  user=root
Nov  9 15:42:35 thoth sshd[8093]: Accepted keyboard-interactive/pam for root from 10.1.1.17 port 43186 ssh2
Nov  9 15:42:35 thoth sshd[8093]: fatal: PAM: pam_setcred(): Permission denied

Any ideas where I should be looking?

cheers, Rich.

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