On my fully updated FC6 systems recently I've been seeing lots of "Unable to change GID to 455 temporarily" errors in the logs, e.g.: Dec 21 23:55:44 marimba sshd[7580]: pam_keyinit(sshd:session): Unable to change GID to 455 temporarily (455 is a valid GID on our systems.) I haven't personally noticed any problems logging in to these systems, but some users have reported that they can't open sftp sessions any more. May perhaps be related to bug # 212329? This is using pam-0.99.6.2-3.fc6, openssh-4.3p2-14.fc6, on both i386 and x86_64 systems. How reproducible: uncertain - seems to be about 10% of all ssh connections from looking at /var/log/secure. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Try to sftp to affected system. Actual results: Password auth appears to fail, "unable to change GID" error is logged in /var/log/secure Expected results: sftp session is opened.
pam-0.99.6.2-3.9.fc6 has been pushed for fc6, which should resolve this issue. If these problems are still present in this version, then please make note of it in this bug report.