As it turns out, the system wrote /etc/nologin and /etc/nologin.boot when I rebooted the system (I didn't have to, but without console access, it was a LOT easier that way).
It didn't remove them after startup, thus normal users couldn't log in. Thanks for all the suggestions. At 10:35 PM -0700 4/18/01, Deirdre Saoirse Moen wrote: >I rebooted my system today (probably after a few too many things were >changed) and all of a sudden I can't ssh in as a normal user. > >I've got a fairly minimal system, but it seems a strange thing to break >upon reboot. All I can figure is that some package is in some peculiar >state (I *was* tracking "testing" for a time). > >Any ideas where to look? > >(I'm still waiting for DNS to catch up with me...)