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

[Eric Vought, Technical Director]

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Eric Vought, Technical Director wrote:
| 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?
|
Well, it looks like SELinux cannot be the problem. sshd is running
unconfined; it is not in the 'targetted' policy.

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Eric Vought

Technical Director,
Diversity Ink
Morgan Family Enterprises
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