Bug#331005: sshd[27912]: fatal: PAM: pam_setcred(): Critical error - immediate abort

[Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>]

reassign 331005 libpam-modules 0.79-1
close 331005 0.79-2
merge 330458 331005
thanks

On Fri, Sep 30, 2005 at 08:19:52PM -0500, Brent G. wrote:
> Package: openssh-server
> Version: 1:4.2p1-4
> Severity: important
> 
> Trying to login as a user using keyboard/password authentication results in:
> 
> ----
> Read from remote host thedarkcitadel.com: Connection reset by peer
> Connection to thedarkcitadel.com closed.
> ----
> 
> In syslog you have the following:
> ----
> Sep 30 20:08:16 thedarkcitadel sshd[27905]: Accepted keyboard-interactive/pam for ovrlrdq from 70.178.82.111 port 2305 ssh2
> Sep 30 20:08:16 thedarkcitadel sshd[27912]: (pam_unix) session opened for user ovrlrdq by (uid=0)
> Sep 30 20:08:16 thedarkcitadel sshd[27912]: fatal: PAM: pam_setcred(): Critical error - immediate abort

This is a PAM bug, fixed in 0.79-2.

Cheers,

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson@debian.org]