Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2000 19:24:17 GMT From: Marty Cawthon <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 Message-ID: <20001020192417M.mrc@ChipChat.ne.jp> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0010201134520.51969-100000@idiom.com> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0010201134520.51969-100000@idiom.com>
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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
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