Re: This is weird: I can ssh into a box, but I can't access it directly

2020-02-27 Thread Dan Purgert
On Feb 27, 2020, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Thu, Feb 27, 2020 at 01:47:10PM -0500, Dan Purgert wrote: > > Interesting that "root from SSH" would behave differently than "local > > root". That's news to me. > > Well, they run different programs, and read different config files. > A console login

Re: This is weird: I can ssh into a box, but I can't access it directly

2020-02-27 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Thu, Feb 27, 2020 at 01:47:10PM -0500, Dan Purgert wrote: > Interesting that "root from SSH" would behave differently than "local > root". That's news to me. Well, they run different programs, and read different config files. A console login uses getty + login, and reads /etc/pam.d/login. An

Re: This is weird: I can ssh into a box, but I can't access it directly

2020-02-27 Thread Dan Purgert
On Feb 27, 2020, James H. H. Lampert wrote: > On 2/26/20 8:52 AM, Dan Purgert wrote: > > Are you ssh'ing in as root? If not, is your user's $HOME on the > > machine's failing disk, or another (remote?) drive? > > and I replied (off-List, and *not* intentionally so): > > Yes. As root.

Re: This is weird: I can ssh into a box, but I can't access it directly

2020-02-27 Thread James H. H. Lampert
On 2/26/20 8:52 AM, Dan Purgert wrote: Are you ssh'ing in as root? If not, is your user's $HOME on the machine's failing disk, or another (remote?) drive? and I replied (off-List, and *not* intentionally so): Yes. As root. Oh, and one other thing, the thing that brought this to my attention

Re: This is weird: I can ssh into a box, but I can't access it directly

2020-02-26 Thread Dan Purgert
On Feb 26, 2020, James H. H. Lampert wrote: > One of our Linux boxes is behaving oddly. If I ssh into it, I can connect > easily, and I get: > [...] > > But if I go into the server cage, and punch it up on the KVM switch, > and try to sign on as root, I get: Are you ssh'ing in as root? If not,

This is weird: I can ssh into a box, but I can't access it directly

2020-02-26 Thread James H. H. Lampert
One of our Linux boxes is behaving oddly. If I ssh into it, I can connect easily, and I get: The programs included with the Debian GNU/Linux system are free software; the exact distribution terms for each program are described in the individual files in /usr/share/doc/*/copyright. Debian