ssh won't allow non-root users to login on centos

[Fernando Duran]

--- Dave Cramer <davec-zxk95TxsVYDyHADnj0MGvQC/G2K4zDHf at public.gmane.org> wrote:

> Anyone seen this before ?
> 
> I can do rsync with a non-root user
> I can login with the root user
> what I can't seem to do is get a pts ?
> 

>From the root prompt, do a "su - user" and also "su
user". Do you get a shell for the user?

In "grep root /etc/passwd" and same for the non-root
user, is the last column the same?

If you create a new "test" user, can you ssh in?

If you ssh as root, can you get another session (pts)
if you ssh again as root while the first session is
still on?


Fernando

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