From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.0.3705) Description of problem: password change prevents ssh login More info here would simply be repetition of info below. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Create new account with some password. 2. Log in as that user via ssh. 3. Run passwd and change password to something else. 4. Try sshing in as that user with either new or old passwords. 5. Try loging into machine from console. Actual Results: sshing in with either old or new password fails console login works Expected Results: both ssh and console login should work Additional info:
This is really strange behaviour which I can't reproduce on recent Fedora/RHEL distributions and there is not enough info in it. Reopen if still happens for you with the latest FC/RHEL distribution.