Why we can't login ? (fwd)

[Joshua Stein]

Markus Friedl wrote:
> hints?

> We uninstalled the default SSH  packages openssh-2.1.1p4-1,
> openssh-server-2.1.1p4-1, and openssh-clients-2.1.1p4-1 of RedHat 7.0
> and installed openssh-2.5.2p2 (config, make, install, not from RPM's).

A shot in the dark:

The RPM uninstallation probably removed /etc/pam.d/sshd and was not
created/setup correctly when OpenSSH was reinstalled from the source.