Thanks Styx. I think I have solved the problem.. Here is what was happening! I was authenticating using NIS and openSSH + PAM + NIS seem to be not working well. No matter what I do, PAM always says that Account Expired and closes the connection. Now I have created a local account and everything seems to work great. Recently I saw a NIS paatch to PAM floating around but I donnow what the status.. I guess I would have to stick to local account for now.. Thanks Ajay -----Original Message----- From: Joachim Blaabjerg [mailto:styx@SuxOS.org] Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2001 2:01 PM To: Ajay Agrawalla Cc: pam-list@redhat.com Subject: Re: PAM + openSSH + NetBSD sshd doesn't do RSA authentication Hi Can you please send me (or the list) your PAM configuration file? -- Joachim Blaabjerg styx@mailbox.as www.SuxOS.org