Re: Help with login problem!

From: FS (bastiji_at_gmail.com)
Date: 04/29/05

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    Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2005 09:55:32 -0400
To: Ankush Grover <ankush174@gmail.com>

    On 4/29/05, Ankush Grover <ankush174@gmail.com> wrote:
    > When I try to ssh to the said account, it doesn't work. The connection
    > opens, accepts my password and then closes instantly. Trying to "su -
    > newuser" or "su newuser" result in a "could not open session"
    > Interestingly enough, FTP does work!
    >
    > > > >Googling seems to point to permissions problem but I can't figure out
    > > > >where or what. The /etc/passwd is 644, /etc/group is 644 and
    > > > >/etc/shadow is 600. Permissions for the home directory are fine too.
    > > > >
    >
    > Hey,
    >
    > Can you login into the machine without going through SSH,if you are
    > able to do so then the problem is with SSH.
    >
    > Try to restart the SSH service
    >
    > service sshd restart
    >
    > You can also check the /etc/ssh/ssh_config and /etc/ssh/sshd_config files also.
    > SSH is controlled by these files.
    >
    > Moreover create one more user try to login the new user through SSH
    > and also from the FC1 machine also.I
    >
    > Regards
    >
    > Ankush
    >

    Ankush -- Thanks for replying.

    I found out the problem this morning. Somehow the permissions on the
    /etc were set to rwxr--r-- Changing that to rwxr-xr-x, I'm now able to
    login/ssh/console properly.

    Thank you all for your help!

    Rgds,
    Faisal 

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