Hi In Chapter 6 "Installing Basic System Software" file /var/log/btmp must have 600 permissions but not 644.
Otherwise daemon sshd (using PAM) from OpenSSH do'nt write to /var/log/btmp and complain to syslog when password is not valid: ------8<------------ sshd[8369]: Failed password for user7 from 192.168.1.201 port 42884 ssh2 sshd[8369]: Excess permission or bad ownership on file /var/log/btmp ------8<------------ -- With regards, Sergei Butakov -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/hlfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
