Hi Sean! On Fri, 12 Feb 2010, Sean Carolan wrote: > > I have UsePAM turned on, and getent group shows me in the "operations" > > group. ?I wonder why sshd is not seeing that I'm in the operations > > group? > > Ok, never mind. On this particular server there was one entry in > /etc/group with my username in it, that was somehow interfering. Once > I removed my username from there, it's showing me in the operations > group and seems to work now. How would you allow root logins to > proceed if there is no "root" user in LDAP? Set up a local root user on every box. I highly recommend not relying on LDAP for that, or you're a bit screwed if, for example, your network cable goes bad.