[CentOS] Re: SSH suddenly started failing :(

[Kay Diederichs]

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

what does /var/log/secure say?