On 13/02/14 22:19, Colin Watson wrote: > On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 08:14:15PM +0100, Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez wrote: >> I hit this bug after upgrading a machine. After rebooting it I was >> unable to login again. > > Unfortunately I haven't successfully reproduced this yet ... > >> On /var/log/auth.log was the following error: >> sshd[10480]: error: PAM: pam_open_session(): Cannot make/remove an entry for >> the specified session > > Could you clarify whether "pam_loginuid(sshd:session): set_loginuid > failed" is also in the log, as per the first message in this bug report? >
Yes. The complete auth.log for a failed attempt to login as root is: Feb 13 10:57:41 bb-webkit2-rel-64 sshd[10480]: Accepted publickey for root from 192.168.0.121 port 37267 ssh2: DSA 1a:f2:16:e1:71:43:62:b6:13:af:91:67:e6:f0:59:8a Feb 13 10:57:41 bb-webkit2-rel-64 sshd[10480]: pam_loginuid(sshd:session): set_loginuid failed Feb 13 10:57:41 bb-webkit2-rel-64 sshd[10480]: pam_unix(sshd:session): session opened for user root by (uid=0) Feb 13 10:57:41 bb-webkit2-rel-64 sshd[10480]: error: PAM: pam_open_session(): Cannot make/remove an entry for the specified session Feb 13 10:57:41 bb-webkit2-rel-64 sshd[10480]: Received disconnect from 192.168.0.121: 11: disconnected by user Is also worth telling that not only login as root was failing, but also login as any other normal user via PAM/LDAP: Feb 13 10:57:09 bb-webkit2-rel-64 sshd[10409]: pam_unix(sshd:auth): authentication failure; logname= uid=0 euid=0 tty=ssh ruser= rhost=ip121.dynamic.igalia.com user=clopez Feb 13 10:57:09 bb-webkit2-rel-64 sshd[10409]: Accepted password for clopez from 192.168.0.121 port 37262 ssh2 Feb 13 10:57:09 bb-webkit2-rel-64 sshd[10409]: pam_loginuid(sshd:session): set_loginuid failed Feb 13 10:57:09 bb-webkit2-rel-64 sshd[10409]: pam_unix(sshd:session): session opened for user clopez by (uid=0) Feb 13 10:57:09 bb-webkit2-rel-64 sshd[10409]: error: PAM: pam_open_session(): Cannot make/remove an entry for the specified session Feb 13 10:57:09 bb-webkit2-rel-64 sshd[10413]: Received disconnect from 192.168.0.121: 11: disconnected by user I didn't tried with a local normal (not-root) user, but I can give it a try if you think is worth.
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