Re: Strange problems with sshd under fc3 - Rejecting all users but one

From: Eric Vought, Technical Director (evought_at_diversityink.com)
Date: 02/03/05

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    Eric Vought, Technical Director wrote:
    | Satish Balay wrote:
    | | On Wed, 2 Feb 2005, Eric Vought, Technical Director wrote:
    | |
    | |
    | |>Symptoms:
    | |>sshd rejects all users but one (my account) with "*user* rejected
    | |>because not in AllowUsers".
    | |
    | |
    | | Maybe not releated - but I thought I'd sugest anyway..
    | |
    | | Once I had problem with adding new users with
    | | 'system-config-users'. However I could add with 'adduser' - but ssh
    | | whouldn't accept the passwd.
    | |
    | | The thing that resolved this issue for me was running
    | | 'system-config-securitylevel' - in the 'Selinux' tab, disabling
    | | Selinux - and then re-enabling it again.
    | |
    | | Satish
    | |
    | That's interesting ... it may be related. Does SELinux cache the inodes
    | of configuration files? In other words, if I used an editor which does a
    | create-and-rename for saving files, would sshd be rendered incapable of
    | reading its own configuration?
    |
    Well, it looks like SELinux cannot be the problem. sshd is running
    unconfined; it is not in the 'targetted' policy.

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    Eric Vought

    Technical Director,
    Diversity Ink
    Morgan Family Enterprises
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