On Thu, 7 Jun 2007, John Lagrue wrote:
Cameron Showalter wrote:
John Lagrue wrote:
> All of a sudden I can no longer ssh into my server running CentOS 4.5
>
> This is what happens:
>
> [john@lt-131-jdl-f7 ~]$ ssh -Y -p 2222 192.168.0.1
> john@xxxxxxxxxxx's password:
> Connection to 192.168.0.1 closed by remote host.
> Connection to 192.168.0.1 closed.
>
> And yes, the account does exist and the password is correct!
>
> Looking at the logs, I see this:
>
> Jun 7 18:51:37 moray1 sshd(pam_unix)[11348]: authentication failure;
> logname= uid=0 euid=0 tty=NODEVssh ruser= rhost=192.168.0.209 user=john
> Jun 7 18:51:46 moray1 sshd[11348]: Accepted password for john from
> : : ffff:192.168.0.209 port 57755 ssh2
> Jun 7 18:51:46 moray1 sshd(pam_unix)[11352]: session opened for user
> john by (uid=500)
> Jun 7 18:51:46 moray1 pam_loginuid[11352]: set_loginuid failed
> opening loginuid Jun 7 18:51:46 moray1 pam_loginuid[11352]:
> set_loginuid failed
> Does any of this make sense?
>
> I've tried it on three different clients and get the same thing every
> time.
>
> JDL
>
> Jun 7 18:51:46 moray1 sshd[11352]: fatal: PAM session setup
> failed[14]: Cannot make/remove an entry for the specified session
This last entry smells to me like it might be a disk-full error. Even
if df reports lots of space free, it might be worth using lsof to see
whether there are file descriptors open to large (but seemingly
deleted) files.
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Paul Heinlein <> heinlein@xxxxxxxxxx <> http://www.madboa.com/
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