Problem with ssh and pam on today's world and kernel.

[Diomidis Spinellis]

Edwin Culp wrote:
> When I try to login to a remote server with ssh I am seeing the
> following in the auth.log on the remote server.
> 
> Mar  9 19:24:21 local1 sshd[2450]: fatal: stat(/dev/#C:212:0x0)
> failed: No such file or directory
> Mar  9 19:24:21 local1 sshd[2450]: error: chown /dev/#C:212:0x0 0 0
> failed: No such file or directory
> Mar  9 19:24:21 local1 sshd[2450]: error: chmod /dev/#C:212:0x0 0666
> failed: No such file or directory
> 
> I didn't have this problem yesterday and I've checked configuration,
> mergemaster, pam, etc. and have no idea what could be causing it.
> 
> It has me locked me out interactive ssh sessions but commands do work
> so I can cvsup and rebuild on the remote machines in case the error is
> in today's cvsup.
> 
> Any and all suggestions welcome.

Poul-Henning Kamp posted a patch here yesterday in an email titled 
"[TEST(/review)] major/minor/devname fix".

Diomidis