Problem Solved... New Update to OpenSSH solved the problem, don't know what caused the issue ain the first place, but with the latest OpenSSH RPM all works fine. I can only assume that it was, therefore not a kerberos problem.
Thanks Chris White wrote: > I have a dozen RedHat machines that were set up to use kerberos for > authentication aganst a M$ Active Directory server (managed by a central > admin department), they get their User account details from a LDAP > database that I manage (usernames are kept the same). All this was > configured using the authconfig tool with RedHat. It was all working. > > I updated the system and now it fails to work. All I get, from a remote > login, is "Connection closed by XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX" instead of being prompted > for a password. This occures for ALL user accounts, even those that are > handled by the standard unix passwd file authentication (including root). > > If I disable Kerberos authentication (but leave LDAP user accounts) in > authconfig then I can login using any account in the passwd fie (ie root), > but as soon as I re-activate the kerberos authentication it fails. > > I have tried re-installing one machine with redhat 8.0 and it works fine > until I apply all the updates then the same problem occurs. I have tried > installing RedHat 9 and have exactly the same problem. > > The Log files are not giving me much help, but it seams that the > authentication is progressing only to the pam_unix module and no further, > > Sep 16 13:17:18 giants sshd(pam_unix)[7522]: check pass; user unknown > Sep 16 13:17:18 giants sshd(pam_unix)[7522]: authentication failure; > logname= uid=0 euid=0 tty=NODEVssh ruser= rhost=<My Host Name> > > Any help would be most appreciated. > > Thanks ________________________________________________ Kerberos mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/kerberos
