recent update to pam causing non-root ssh logins to fail?

[Tomas Mraz]

> yes.  i added some content to support oracle 10g.  here are the
> *total* non-commented contents of the limits.conf file:
> 
> *               soft    nproc   2047
> *               hard    nproc   16384
> *               soft    nofile  1024
> *               hard    nofile  65536
> 
> it doesn't *look* like any of those should cause a problem.  more
> thoughts?

Yes they are a problem. Either you must disable SSH privilege
separation, or you must preset ulimits to these values
in /etc/init.d/sshd startup script.
Or you can upgrade to openssh package from FC3.

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Tomas Mraz <tmraz at redhat.com>