On Fri, Jun 30, 2006 at 07:16:14PM +0100, Steve Blinkhorn wrote:
> I think I see where the problem may lie.   The window I currently have
> open onto this machine is a su shell.   But if I try to su again, I
> get "pam_start failed".   IIRC this relates to the warning in the
> docs and what I am most concerned about.

Yes, PAM should be the only big problem. You can install /etc/pam.d from
the 3.0 etc.tar.gz, that should make PAM working.

There used to be a UsePam=no option you could add to /etc/ssh/sshd_config to
make it not use PAM, but I can't find this in the docuementation now.

Martin