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  • Normal user ssh access not working

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    RHEL 5.7 , normal users are not able to login. Even after recreating users.
    We are getting following error message while trying to ssh as normal user
     ssh abcd@10.xx.xx.xx

    Connecting to 10.xx.xx.xx:22...
    Connection established.
    Escape character is '^@]'.

    WARNING! The remote SSH server rejected X11 forwarding request.
    Last login: Tue Apr 24 19:33:58 2012 from 10.xx.xx.x2
    Could not chdir to home directory /home/xxxx: Permission denied
    /bin/bash: Permission denied

    Connection closed by foreign host.

    we are getting below message in /var/log/secure

    Apr 24 19:33:58 test123 sshd[8655]: channel_by_id: 0: bad id: channel free
    Apr 24 19:33:58 test123 sshd[8651]: pam_unix(sshd:session): session closed for user xxxx
    Apr 24 19:38:02 test123 sshd[8916]: Accepted password for anil from 10.xx.xxx.xxx  port 52913 ssh2
    Apr 24 19:38:02 test123 sshd[8916]: pam_unix(sshd:session): session opened for user xxxx by (uid=0)
    Apr 24 19:38:02 test123 sshd[8920]: channel_by_id: 0: bad id: channel free
    Apr 24 19:38:02 test123 sshd[8916]: pam_unix(sshd:session): session closed for user xxxx

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