Logon failure after configuring server to authenticate against IPA server

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Issue

  • After configuring a client to authenticate accounts using an IPA server, connections via ssh fail logging the following lines to /var/log/secure:
Mar  5 09:36:23 client sshd[11820]: pam_sss(sshd:auth): received for user username: 4 (System error)
Mar  5 09:36:25 client sshd[11820]: Failed password for username from 127.0.0.1 port 37490 ssh2

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux - 6.2
  • IPA Server

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