Hi, I have installed OpenSSL 0.96 and OpenSSH 2.3.0p1 on a Sun box (UltraSPARC 1) running Solaris 2.6. I keep getting the following errors in the logs, and neither public key authentication nor sftp works: Dec 30 00:32:30 helios sshd[11169]: pam_setcred: error Permission denied Before I spend a week on this, can someone show me how to set up /etc/pam.conf for ssh? I'm guessing this is the problem... The OpenSSH man-pages seem to focus on Linux, or else I have misunderstood something. My pam.conf-file currently looks as follows: helios# more /etc/pam.conf #ident "@(#)pam.conf 1.19 95/11/30 SMI" # # PAM configuration # # Authentication management # login auth required /usr/lib/security/pam_unix.so.1 login auth required /usr/lib/security/pam_dial_auth.so.1 # rlogin auth sufficient /usr/lib/security/pam_rhosts_auth.so.1 rlogin auth required /usr/lib/security/pam_unix.so.1 # dtlogin auth required /usr/lib/security/pam_unix.so.1 # rsh auth required /usr/lib/security/pam_rhosts_auth.so.1 other auth required /usr/lib/security/pam_unix.so.1 # # Account management # login account required /usr/lib/security/pam_unix.so.1 dtlogin account required /usr/lib/security/pam_unix.so.1 # other account required /usr/lib/security/pam_unix.so.1 # # Session management # other session required /usr/lib/security/pam_unix.so.1 # # Password management # other password required /usr/lib/security/pam_unix.so.1 Thanks. Olof