sshd refuses all passwords

[Pier Erik Hegeman]

Hi, I'm something of a newbie sysadmin so I apologise in advance if this is a totally obvious error. I'm having a problem with sshd in that it's refusing access from all user accounts. The error I'm getting is "permission denied, try again." I've tried many times with various different user accounts so the chance that I've got the password wrong is pretty slim. I ran ssh with the -v switch and everything looked normal until the authentication when it just crapped out with the same error. I think it may be a PAM problem, since the system's logging a PAM error. Here's a snippet of /var/log/messages: Aug 1 04:57:37 www sshd[28154]: Failed password for pier from 192.168.100.193 port 679 Aug 1 04:57:39 www sshd[28154]: Connection closed by 192.168.100.193 Aug 1 04:57:39 www sshd[28154]: Cannot close PAM session: System error Aug 1 04:57:39 www sshd[28154]: Cannot delete credentials: Authentication service cannot retrieve user credentials Aug 1 04:57:49 www sshd[28156]: Failed password for postgres from 192.168.100.193 port 954 Aug 1 04:57:50 www sshd[28156]: Connection closed by 192.168.100.193 Aug 1 04:57:50 www sshd[28156]: Cannot close PAM session: System error Aug 1 04:57:50 www sshd[28156]: Cannot delete credentials: Authentication service cannot retrieve user credentials I've installed openssh-2.1.0 on RH linux 6.0, I'm using pam ver. 0.72-6. Any hints? Thanx in advance, -Pier --------------------------------------------------------------------- Pier Hegeman, Web Programmer | Adex Ltd., Japan e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Kobayashi Bldg. 5F,4-2-10, Kudanminami, http://www.adex-japan.com | Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, Japan 102-0074 ---------------------------------------------------------------------