[Cialug] pam troubleshooting

Matt Patterson matt at usrlocal.com
Mon Jul 23 23:54:43 CDT 2007


Do the logs show anything out of the oridnary?  Or anything at all about a 
connection coming in?

-Matt

On Mon, 23 Jul 2007, kristau wrote:

> On 7/23/07, Jeff Davis <jdavis at geolearning.com> wrote:
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>> The short version of the problem is that I've added debug to my pam 
>> modules,
>> edited my chroot.conf, etc. and all I see in the logs are success messages.
>> But when I sftp as that user, i get prompted for a password and then just a
>> connection closed.
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> This kinda sorta sounds like the binaries for sftp or some other
> necessary component aren't located inside the chroot jail?  That'd be
> my guess, but I've never set this up.  It kinda sounds like what
> happens if you don't define a valid shell in /etc/passwd for a user
> then try to log in as that user.
>
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