Strange problems with sshd under fc3 - Rejecting all users but one

Eric Vought, Technical Director evought at diversityink.com
Thu Feb 3 00:34:22 UTC 2005


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Satish Balay wrote:
| On Wed, 2 Feb 2005, Eric Vought, Technical Director wrote:
|
|
|>Symptoms:
|>sshd rejects all users but one (my account) with "*user* rejected
|>because not in AllowUsers".
|
|
| Maybe not releated - but I thought I'd sugest anyway..
|
| Once I had problem with adding new users with
| 'system-config-users'. However I could add with 'adduser' - but ssh
| whouldn't accept the passwd.
|
| The thing that resolved this issue for me was running
| 'system-config-securitylevel' - in the 'Selinux' tab, disabling
| Selinux - and then re-enabling it again.
|
| Satish
|
That's interesting ... it may be related. Does SELinux cache the inodes
of configuration files? In other words, if I used an editor which does a
create-and-rename for saving files, would sshd be rendered incapable of
reading its own configuration?

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Eric Vought

Technical Director,
Diversity Ink
Morgan Family Enterprises
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