From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 20 12:24:34 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from EI-Tiger.ChipChat.ne.jp (EI-Tiger.ChipChat.ne.jp [211.5.237.226]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB85937B479 for ; Fri, 20 Oct 2000 12:24:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by EI-Tiger.ChipChat.ne.jp (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id e9KJOHU82561; Fri, 20 Oct 2000 19:24:18 GMT (envelope-from mrc@ChipChat.ne.jp) To: billy@idiom.com Cc: mrc@ChipChat.ne.jp, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SSH fails for user, but succeeds for root In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: Mew version 1.94.2 on XEmacs 21.1 (Carlsbad Caverns) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <20001020192417M.mrc@ChipChat.ne.jp> Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2000 19:24:17 GMT From: Marty Cawthon X-Dispatcher: imput version 20000228(IM140) Lines: 22 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG billy> I don't know if you've already figured this out, but I just encountered billy> this same problem and figured out what the solution was. billy> billy> I had cvsup'd and remade world, and I had also remade the /dev tree. This billy> had changed alot of the permissions of the /dev/tree. The /dev/tty was billy> changed to crw-------. It needs to be crw-rw-rw-. This solved my billy> problem, maybe it will solve yours if you still have it. At BSDCon Brian Somers found my trouble to be caused by crw------- /dev/urandom This was changed to: crw-r--r-- /dev/urandom which solved my problem. Thanks for your note. Similar problems. I don't know who my permissions got set improperly, as I am certain that I did not do it explicitly. Marty Cawthon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message