Getting ssd started at boot ...

[jbk at mail2.gis.net (jbk)]

I have a similar problem with the samba deamon. All my users can log in to the local
machine, but when they try to access a samba share they get an error mssg. to the
effect ERR.... ERR...  "bad password pair in Tree connect...". I have not been able to
cure this problem by repopulating the smbpasswd file via the FM. I have read a lot on
the PAM modules which do all authentication checking, but there seems to be know
mechanism to check or repair a corrupted database. I unconverted from Shadow passwords
for the moment and that had no effect. I should post my error messages to the PAM list
but no time to do that now. I don't know if it is possible to uninstall PAM and
reinstall and still have access to the system.
Not much help I'm afraid.
Jim Kelly-Rand

John Chambers wrote:

> After a couple of recent power failures,  I've  found  that  sshd  is
> running  but  it  always  rejects logins with the message "Permission
> denied, please try again." The first several times, I fixed  this  by
> killing  sshd  and restarting it by hand, which seems to have worked.
> But this time, it doesn't.  When I start sshd, what it says is:
>
> : /usr/local/sbin/sshd  &
> [1] 5814
> Disabling protocol version 2. Could not load host key
> [1]    Done                          /usr/local/sbin/sshd
> :
>
> I'm not sure what it's complaining about here.  It's running as root,
> and  is  also  setuid-root  (just  to  make sure).  I noticed that it
> doesn't give me a clue as to what file it's trying to read  the  host
> key  from  so  I  used the -h option to tell it to read from the file
> /usr/local/etc/ssh_host_key, the default, and this has no  effect  on
> anything.
>
> Anyhow, when I try to ssh in from another machine, I get:
>
> : ssh jc.tzo.net
> jc at jc.tzo.net's password:
> Permission denied, please try again.
> jc at jc.tzo.net's password:
>
> This repeats 3 times and then gives up.  Note that it isn't  actually
> saying  that the password is bad; it'd saying that some (unspecified)
> permission has been denied.  But it gives no clue as to what  it  was
> checking  permissions  on.   I  can verify that jc.tzo.net is my home
> machine by looking at /var/log/messages, which shows things like:
>
> Jan 28 16:41:17 kendy sshd[6011]: Connection from 18.62.1.54 port 1345
> Jan 28 16:41:17 kendy sshd[6011]: Failed rsa for jc from 18.62.1.54 port 1345
> Jan 28 16:41:20 kendy sshd[6011]: Failed password for jc from 18.62.1.54 port 1345
>
> This verifies that ssh is connecting to sshd on my  machine,  and  it
> does seem to be saying that the password is the problem. There's also
> a "Failed rsa" message, but I don't seem to find anything in TFM that
> explains what this signifies.
>
> Checking with "su - jc" verifies that I'm typing the right  password.
> Looking  in  my  .ssh  directory shows that known_hosts seems to have
> changed a few minutes ago, and random_seed changed 3  days  ago,  but
> I'm  not sure whether these are significant.  TFM doesn't seem to say
> quite what this might signify.
>
> So I've run out of clues. Any idea how to learn why sshd is rejecting
> all my passwords, and make it start working again?
>
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