[Gllug] Debian SSH not letting root login anymore?

Daniel P. Berrange dan at berrange.com
Wed Nov 9 15:54:30 UTC 2005


On Wed, Nov 09, 2005 at 03:48:35PM +0000, Rich Walker wrote:
> 
> 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?

What is in your /etc/pam.d/sshd   config file (and any other PAM config
files it might delegate to, such as system-auth) ?


Dan.
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