This one time, at band camp, Stephen Gran said: > Hello all, > I recently added a new user to my system, so that he and I could file > share - he'll be mostly conecting via ssh or scp'ing files in & out. > this part of it has worked just fine so far. > Now for the problem: > He stopped by the other day, and wanted to log in to do something or > other, but kdm kicked him out with a "login failed". Rather than worry > about kdm at first, as he doesn't need a GUI, we jumped back to an open > vt, and he tried to login. This failed with "permission denied". Now > I'm stumped. > I added him with the normal adduser program, filling in pertinent > details. I can su - "user" and log in as him fine. He can ssh in > without a problem. He has an entry in both /etc/groups and /etc/shadow. > None of the other users have this problem. I really can't figure out > where the problem is - it seems to me like a PAM issue, but just looking > through the conf files, I don't see anything that is set up to exclude > all but listed users, or include only some users - that is, I see that > it can be done in various files, but I have not changed them from their > commented out original state. > Running Sid, up to date as of today. > Help? Sorry to answer my own question, but if others get stuck here too - it's /etc/security/access.conf that was the problem. Steve -- There is nothing more silly than a silly laugh. -- Gaius Valerius Catullus
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