[CentOS] SSH suddenly started failing :(

John Lagrue admin at moraystudio.com
Thu Jun 7 21:37:17 UTC 2007


Cameron Showalter wrote:
> John Lagrue wrote:
>   
>> All of a sudden I can no longer ssh into my server running CentOS 4.5
>>
>> This is what happens:
>>
>> [john at lt-131-jdl-f7 ~]$ ssh -Y -p 2222 192.168.0.1
>> john at 192.168.0.1's password:
>> Connection to 192.168.0.1 closed by remote host.
>> Connection to 192.168.0.1 closed.
>>
>> And yes, the account does exist and the password is correct!
>>
>> Looking at the logs, I see this:
>>
>> Jun  7 18:51:37 moray1 sshd(pam_unix)[11348]: authentication failure;
>> logname= uid=0 euid=0 tty=NODEVssh ruser= rhost=192.168.0.209  user=john
>> Jun  7 18:51:46 moray1 sshd[11348]: Accepted password for john from
>> ::ffff:192.168.0.209 port 57755 ssh2
>> Jun  7 18:51:46 moray1 sshd(pam_unix)[11352]: session opened for user
>> john by (uid=500)
>> Jun  7 18:51:46 moray1 pam_loginuid[11352]: set_loginuid failed
>> opening loginuid Jun  7 18:51:46 moray1 pam_loginuid[11352]:
>> set_loginuid failed
>> Does any of this make sense?
>>
>> I've tried it on three different clients and get the same thing every
>> time.
>>
>> JDL
>>
>> Jun  7 18:51:46 moray1 sshd[11352]: fatal: PAM session setup
>> failed[14]: Cannot make/remove an entry for the specified session
>>
>>
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>>     
> any updates lately?   I'm wondering if they may be some conflicts with
> pam.   try disabling pam in /etc/ssh/sshd_config, and restart sshd.
>   
I can't recall any updates.

Pam isn't mentioned in /etc/ssh/sshd_config so I have no idea how to 
disable it :(





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