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

Tomas Mraz tmraz at redhat.com
Thu Nov 25 12:12:19 UTC 2004


On Thu, 2004-11-25 at 06:53 -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>   recently, my fedora core 2 system started rejecting ssh logins to my
> non-root account on that system.  if, from a remote system, i ssh to
> root, no problem.  if i ssh to my regular account, the connection is
> closed.

>  account sufficient /lib/security/$ISA/pam_succeed_if.so uid < 100

This isn't the culprit.

> which clearly is what allows me to ssh in as root, but not as me.
> should i simply change that value?  or is there a cleaner way to do
> this?  thanks.
Have you possibly changed something in /etc/security/limits.conf file
recently? What is it's contents?

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Tomas Mraz <tmraz at redhat.com>




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