User can not ssh to the Linux server error:Resource temporarily unavailable
Issue
Collect the sosreport log
Mar 28 09:14:35 hostname1 sshd[29953]: Failed password for <username> from Y.Y.Y.Y port 4532 ssh2
Mar 28 09:14:38 hostname1 sshd[29953]: Accepted password for <username> from Y.Y.Y.Y port 4532 ssh2
Mar 28 09:14:38 hostname1 sshd[29953]: pam_unix(sshd:session): session opened for user <username> by (uid=0)
Mar 28 09:14:38 hostname1 sshd[29960]: error: do_exec_pty: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable
Mar 28 09:14:40 hostname1 sshd[29953]: pam_unix(sshd:session): session closed for user <username>
Mar 28 09:15:25 hostname1 sshd[29974]: Accepted password for <username> from Y.Y.Y.Y port 4608 ssh2
Mar 28 09:15:25 hostname1 sshd[29974]: pam_unix(sshd:session): session opened for user <username>
by (uid=0)
Mar 28 09:15:25 hostname1 sshd[29978]: error: do_exec_pty: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable
Mar 28 09:15:25 hostname1 sshd[29974]: pam_unix(sshd:session): session closed for user
Mar 28 09:16:39 hostname1 sshd[29993]: Accepted password for <username> from Y.Y.Y.Y port 4639 ssh2
Mar 28 09:16:39 hostname1 sshd[29993]: pam_unix(sshd:session): session opened for user <username>
by (uid=0)
Mar 28 09:16:39 hostname1 sshd[30003]: error: do_exec_pty: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable
Mar 28 09:16:47 hostname1 sshd[29993]: pam_unix(sshd:session): session closed for user
Mar 28 09:16:51 hostname1 sshd[30006]: Accepted password for root from X.X.X.X port 2958 ssh2
Mar 28 09:16:51 hostname1 sshd[30006]: pam_unix(sshd:session): session opened for user root by (uid=0)
Mar 28 09:16:54 hostname1 sshd[30006]: pam_unix(sshd:session): session closed for user root
Mar 28 09:17:02 hostname1 sshd[30031]: Accepted password for <username> from X.X.X.X port 2960 ssh2
Mar 28 09:17:02 hostname1 sshd[30031]: pam_unix(sshd:session): session opened for user <username> by (uid=0)
Mar 28 09:17:02 hostname1 sshd[30041]: error: do_exec_pty: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable
Mar 28 09:31:17 hostname1 sshd[30031]: pam_unix(sshd:session): session closed for user <username>
Mar 28 09:32:18 hostname1 unix_chkpwd[30255]: password check failed for user (root)
Mar 28 09:32:18 hostname1 sshd[30245]: pam_unix(sshd:auth): authentication failure; logname= uid=0 euid=0 tty=ssh ruser= rhost=X.X.X.X user=root
Mar 28 09:32:20 hostname1 sshd[30245]: Failed password for root from X.X.X.X port 3237 ssh2
Mar 28 09:32:26 hostname1 sshd[30245]: Accepted password for root from X.X.X.X port 3237 ssh2
Mar 28 09:32:26 hostname1 sshd[30245]: pam_unix(sshd:session): session opened for user root by (uid=0)
Environment
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.2
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