i was going to suggest that pam was probably the culprit.  i don't know
where redhat puts things, but i have a /etc/pam.d/ dir with multiple
pam config files per different pam-aware applications.  i would look into
what type of pam config openssh uses (i'm still using regular ssh) 

Michael Rice ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> is your system running pam and is the pam configuration file installed?
> 
> it's in the contrib/redhat/ directory in your openssh distribution.
> 
> 
> On Fri, Oct 27, 2000 at 01:52:02AM -0500, Michael Orion Jackson wrote:
> > On Thu, 26 Oct 2000, Warren Wang wrote:
> > 
> > > I've been successfully running openssh 2.2.0p1 on various platforms.
> > > I ran into the same problem you did on one linux box.  Check to make
> > > sure that the encrypted password is in the shadow file.  You can rule
> > > out a few things if you turn on telnet and check to see if you can
> > > telnet in as a specific user.
> > 
> > I'll check when I get home, but I do recall rerunning passwd to make sure
> > (I do remember some distro I installed that didn't encrypt the passwords
> > of users added during the initial install, was it slackware? don't
> > remember).  Can't hurt to 2x check though...
> > 
> > Telneting works exactly as it should.  Of course, since my main point of
> > connection would be from ccwf, which has god alone knows how many
> > thousands of users, I'd prefer ssh just to sooth my paranoic soul. ;)
> > 
> > Anyway, thanks again to everyone!
> > 
> > Mike
> > 
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