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) --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
