Thanks Anders, The system uses NIS, a client.
I happened to have a session logged on at the time, and I could access the NIS servers. I did also restart ypbind, and it got started okay. As explained in my earlier post to Daniel Gomez, I ran a verify on pam, pam-32bit, pam-modules, pam-modules-32bit and yast2-pam, no specific differences reported apart from pam_pwcheck.conf. The latter has only 1 line, nothing obvious... Peter -----Original Message----- From: Anders Johansson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 13 November 2006 19:31 To: opensuse@opensuse.org Subject: Re: [opensuse] SLES 10 x86_64 - Permissions on password database too restrictive On Monday 13 November 2006 16:59, Chiu, PCM (Peter) wrote: > Hi all, > > On a couple of our servers running SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 > (x86_64), we have encountered some intermittent problems when users > try to log on using ssh and failed: > > ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Password: xxxxxx > Permissions on the password database may be too restrictive. This error comes from PAM, and as far as I know it can mean one of two things: either the password or username was wrong, or PAM failed to contact the password source (for example failed to read /etc/shadow, or failed to contact the LDAP server for some reason) --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]