root login not possible

[Christopher D. Clausen]

On debian you'd want to look in /var/log/auth.log

Can you kinit as root on this system?

Also, try running a debug sshd vis:
sshd -ddd -D -p 222
and connect with putty using:
putty -P 222 root at hostname

Read through the debug output and see if there is anything useful in 
there.

<<CDC

Mike Dopheide <dopheide at ncsa.uiuc.edu> wrote:
> Unfortunately, I don't have any Debian systems so I don't know what
> their default configuration looks like.  Take a look in your
> /var/log/messages (or equivalent) and see if PAM is spitting out any
> useful information.  If there are messages, paste them here with your
> PAM config.
>
>> Hello Mike,
>>
>> On 10/27/06, Mike Dopheide <dopheide at ncsa.uiuc.edu> wrote:
>>>
>>> What are you using to login?  telnet/rsh/ssh?  My first guess is
>>> that ssh is configured to disallow root logins on the second system.
>>>
>>
>> I try to login directly. Not over ssh/telnet/ or sth else.
>>
>>> -Mike
>>>
>>> > Hello ml,
>>> >
>>> > i have just installed Kerberos on a Debian (Sarge) System.
>>> >
>>> > I configured pam to allow kerberos login.
>>> >
>>> > Every non-root user can successfully login and get a kerberos
>>> > ticket.
>>> >
>>> > But the root-user cannot login.
>>> >
>>> > When i try to login as root on a client-machine the login works
>>> > (password get verified by the kerberos-server) and i get a
>>> > kerberos ticket.