ssh login error

[A.Fadyushin at it-centre.ru]

I think that your problem is described in the first error message - sshd
could not find the home directory for the user trying to login.

Is there a root's home directory /home/root in that server at the login
time? It could be accidentally deleted or placed on a partition which is
not mounted due to some reason (so it is better to have root home
directory in the root filesystem, usually as /root - it will be
available even in the case when mount of ordinary users' home partition
failed).

Alexey Fadyushin.
Brainbench MVP for Linux
http://www.brainbench.com

> -----Original Message-----
> From: redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:redhat-list-
> bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Robert Ngo
> Sent: Tuesday, September 27, 2005 10:09 AM
> To: redhat-list at redhat.com
> Subject: ssh login error
> 
> Hi,
> 
> 
> I just hit a problem with one of my server, i cannot use ssh to login
to
> the server, there is a error message before it disconnect.
> 
> Could not chdir to home directory /home/root: No such file or
directory
> /usr/X11R6/bin/xauth:  error in locking authority file
> /home/root/.Xauthority
> 
> what is causing this problem?
> 
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