It all started after rebooting to correct a scsi module problem ;< My logon and email fetching has been working *without* incident for many months.
Now, my user (mds) can no longer ssh into a remote debian system: # ssh -X deb.platinumaire.net [EMAIL PROTECTED]'s password: Permission denied, please try again. [EMAIL PROTECTED]'s password: Permission denied, please try again. [EMAIL PROTECTED]'s password: Permission denied (publickey,password,keyboard-interactive). Fortunately, I have another logon that works. I have logged on as another user, su'd to mds, changed my password several times, tested it while logged on -- each time, ssh logon fails: Oct 31 19:11:51 deb sshd[585]: Failed password for mds from 12.248.228.98 port 63393 ssh2 Oct 31 19:12:04 deb last message repeated 2 times Worse, I remotely gather email from that system via fetchmail, which is also failing. Fortunately (?) this, at least, gives me a clue: Oct 31 19:08:01 deb cron(pam_unix)[558]: session opened for user mail by (uid=0) Oct 31 19:08:02 deb cron(pam_unix)[558]: session closed for user mail Oct 31 19:08:09 deb popa3d(pam_unix)[576]: authentication failure; logname= uid=0 euid=0 tty= ruser= rhost= user=mds Oct 31 19:10:56 deb popa3d(pam_unix)[582]: authentication failure; logname= uid=0 euid=0 tty= ruser= rhost= user=mds What do you think? -- Best Regards, mds mds resource 877.596.8237 - Dare to fix things before they break . . . - Our capacity for understanding is inversely proportional to how much we think we know. The more I know, the more I know I don't know . . . --
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