root login not possible

2006-10-27 Thread Jan Gehring
Hello ml, i have just installed Kerberos on a Debian (Sarge) System. I configured pam to allow kerberos login. Every non-root user can successfully login and get a kerberos ticket. But the root-user cannot login. When i try to login as root on a client-machine the login works (password get ver

Re: root login not possible

2006-10-27 Thread Mike Dopheide
What are you using to login? telnet/rsh/ssh? My first guess is that ssh is configured to disallow root logins on the second system. As an aside, I'd highly recommend against using a 'root' principle. It's dangerous and doesn't leave a good audit trail. We prefer our admins to login with no

Re: root login not possible

2006-11-06 Thread Jan Gehring
Hello Mike, On 10/27/06, Mike Dopheide <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > What are you using to login? telnet/rsh/ssh? My first guess is that ssh > is configured to disallow root logins on the second system. > I try to login directly. Not over ssh/telnet/ or sth else. > -Mike > > > Hello ml, > > >

Re: root login not possible

2006-11-07 Thread Mike Dopheide
Unfortunately, I don't have any Debian systems so I don't know what their default configuration looks like. Take a look in your /var/log/messages (or equivalent) and see if PAM is spitting out any useful information. If there are messages, paste them here with your PAM config. > Hello Mike,

Re: root login not possible

2006-11-07 Thread Christopher D. Clausen
On debian you'd want to look in /var/log/auth.log Can you kinit as root on this system? Also, try running a debug sshd vis: sshd -ddd -D -p 222 and connect with putty using: putty -P 222 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Read through the debug output and see if there is anything useful in there. < wrote: > Un