Thanks for the help, I'll give this a try.
I don't think the problem is actually to do with authentication. The system
logs suggest that the authentication is OK. The problem is in trying to set
up a console session over SSH or locally. SSH says it connects OK but the
server closes the session immediately. I can find no log information on the
closure which is a pain in the butt!
It's along story how I got here:
1. I wanted to install horde/imp to setup a web email system,
2. The needed PHP4 with certain options in Apache,
3. I recompiled apache with DSO enabled,
4. I tried to set up PHP4 in apache, everything compiled OK but the DSO
module wouldn't load, it complained about a PAM library,
5. I found I needed to install PAM-devel tools to make the relevant library
available,
6. I couldn't find pam-devel as a tar ball but thought if I installed the
latest PAM tar I would be able to extract the relevant libraries.
Somewhere along the line it all failed and I got messed up!
Mark
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