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...)


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