Help with login problem!

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On 4/29/05, Ankush Grover <ankush174 at gmail.com> wrote:
> When I try to ssh to the said account, it doesn't work. The connection
> opens, accepts my password and then closes instantly. Trying to "su -
> newuser" or "su newuser" result in a "could not open session"
> Interestingly enough, FTP does work!
> 
> > > >Googling seems to point to permissions problem but I can't figure out
> > > >where or what. The /etc/passwd is 644, /etc/group is 644 and
> > > >/etc/shadow is 600. Permissions for the home directory are fine too.
> > > >
> 
> Hey,
> 
> Can you login into the machine without going through SSH,if you are
> able to do so then the problem is with SSH.
> 
> Try to restart the SSH service
> 
> service sshd restart
> 
> You can also check the  /etc/ssh/ssh_config and /etc/ssh/sshd_config files also.
> SSH is controlled by these files.
> 
> Moreover create one more user try to login the new user through SSH
> and also from the FC1 machine also.I
> 
> Regards
> 
> Ankush
> 

Ankush -- Thanks for replying.

I found out the problem this morning. Somehow the permissions on the
/etc were set to rwxr--r-- Changing that to rwxr-xr-x, I'm now able to
login/ssh/console properly.

Thank you all for your help!

Rgds,
Faisal