On Thu, Feb 27, 2020 at 01:47:10PM -0500, Dan Purgert wrote: > Interesting that "root from SSH" would behave differently than "local > root". That's news to me.
Well, they run different programs, and read different config files. A console login uses getty + login, and reads /etc/pam.d/login. An ssh login uses sshd, and reads /etc/pam.d/sshd. If one of those files is damaged beyond recovery, it could affect one type of login, but not the other.
