On Monday 13 November 2006 16:59, Chiu, PCM (Peter) wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> On a couple of our servers running SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10
> (x86_64),
> we have encountered some intermittent problems when users try to log on
> using ssh and failed:
>
> ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Password: xxxxxx
> Permissions on the password database may be too restrictive.

This error comes from PAM, and as far as I know it can mean one of two things: 
either the password or username was wrong, or PAM failed to contact the 
password source (for example failed to read /etc/shadow, or failed to contact 
the LDAP server for some reason)
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