I think that ssh does not allow for your home directory to be write enabled
for the group (i have seen this on redhat).
Make sure your home directory has the correct permissions...

Good luck
Offer Baruch
On Mar 3, 2016 5:36 PM, "Tom Huegel" <[email protected]> wrote:

> I wish I had some idea of what I might have changed. Intentionally I
> haven't changed anything.
> There are no new messages in the /var/log/messages file after a failed
> logon.
>
> Comparing /etc/parm.d/sshd to another system that allows SSH logons ...
> they are identical.
> cat
> /etc/pam.d/sshd
>
> #%PAM-1.0
>
> auth       required
> pam_sepermit.so
> auth       substack
> password-auth
> auth       include
> postlogin
> # Used with polkit to reauthorize users in remote
> sessions
> -auth      optional     pam_reauthorize.so
> prepare
> account    required
> pam_nologin.so
> account    include
> password-auth
> password   include
> password-auth
> # pam_selinux.so close should be the first session
> rule
> session    required     pam_selinux.so
> close
> session    required
> pam_loginuid.so
> # pam_selinux.so open should only be followed by sessions to be executed in
> the user context
> session    required     pam_selinux.so open
> env_params
> session    optional     pam_keyinit.so force
> revoke
> session    include
> password-auth
> session    include
> postlogin
> # Used with polkit to reauthorize users in remote
> sessions
> -session   optional     pam_reauthorize.so
> prepare
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On Thu, Mar 3, 2016 at 7:11 AM, van Sleeuwen, Berry <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Hi Tom,
> >
> > Could it be the pam configuration for ssh is changed? Perhaps the
> password
> > checking in pam?
> >
> > I once had such an issue when I made a typo in /etc/pam.d/sshd. After
> this
> > I couldn't login anymore. It showed up in the console log as "Error: PAM:
> > Module is unknown for <userid> from <ip-address>.". (This might be in
> > /var/log/messages as well.)
> >
> > I had to correct the typo using "sed" in the Linux console.
> >
> > Met vriendelijke groet/With kind regards/Mit freundlichen Grüßen,
> > Berry van Sleeuwen
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of
> Tom
> > Huegel
> > Sent: Thursday, March 03, 2016 3:23 PM
> > To: [email protected]
> > Subject: LINUX SSH problem.
> >
> > This seems strange to me (a LINUX novice) but I have FEDORA f21 system
> > that has been working fine until recently.
> > It seems strange LINUX starts up just fine but when I try to SSH
> > (Putty) into it I get the initial logon screen but the password is always
> > rejected.
> > From the z/VM console I can logon using the same password.
> >
> > I must have touched something *&&*&%.
> > Any idea how to fix it?
> > Thanks
> > Tom
> >
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