Nick Rout wrote: >But then why can I lig on as root but not as user? > Have a look in /etc/pam.d/ssh.
Mine looks like this.. #%PAM-1.0 auth required pam_nologin.so auth required pam_unix.so auth required pam_env.so # [1] account required pam_unix.so session required pam_unix.so session optional pam_lastlog.so # [1] session optional pam_motd.so # [1] session optional pam_mail.so standard noenv # [1] session required pam_limits.so password required pam_unix.so # Alternate strength checking for password. Note that this # requires the libpam-cracklib package to be installed. # You will need to comment out the password line above and # uncomment the next two in order to use this. # # password required pam_cracklib.so retry=3 minlen=6 difok=3 # password required pam_unix.so use_authtok nullok md5 Good luck, Rex
