SSH Problem

[jacobp]

When I try and SSH into my maching, I get a Access denied error. I know I am using the correct name and password, cause the problem occurs again when I log in at the terminal. This time it act as if it will log out, welcome me and then kick me out almost instantly. The only account that can be used to log into something is the root account.

I have a number of services that will also not start cause of this issue. It is giving everything permissions denied errors if its not root.

[lakerdonald]

Did you start the SSH Daemon first?

[jacobp]

Indeed I did. The SSH client will work for the root user, just no others. I'm getting permissions denied everywhere I look no matter what the permissions are really set to.

[lakerdonald]

Sounds like you might have borked PAM. have you been playing around with any packages or anything recently that might cause such breakage?

[jacobp]

Indeed I have. I was trying to install firebird recently. about the same time this happened.

Please tell me you know a way to fix it.

Thanks,
Jacob

[kkubasik]

Have you tried just re-installing the most recent version of sshd?

[jacobp]

I'm not sure the sshd is the solution, if I go to the console and try to log into the machine there, is still have the same problem.

[kamtono]

maybe this can help you

#netstat -tulp

is sshd LISTEN ? if yes your ssh server ready to remote from anywhere
or try to ssh your linux box do
#ssh localhost

or you login remote with user root ?
did you change your /etc/ssh/sshd_config
and you change

#PermitRootLogin to no

did you install firewall ?, or maybe grab some easy firewall that i always used http://www.malibyte.net/iptables (read the installation procedure and of course you have to open your ssh port 22)

but if you really advance with iptables you can create your script with your own

and if you do ssh from linux box and then you can reconnect remove ~./ssh/known_hosts

maybe this can help you