On Thu, 7 Jun 2007, John Lagrue wrote: > 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 This last entry smells to me like it might be a disk-full error. Even if df reports lots of space free, it might be worth using lsof to see whether there are file descriptors open to large (but seemingly deleted) files. -- Paul Heinlein <> heinlein at madboa.com <> http://www.madboa.com/