I just managed to get my Kernel recompiled after having issues...(i think the problems were due to heat and ram timing issues). Removed the old SSH from the system to install the newer OpenSSH 3.5r1. Compiled it with the default ./configure and everything went fine...except when i try to start the server. The install did not automatically create the sshd user and group. So I looked all over the web and I guess I needed to make them myself...so I did. I created them with the options that everyone says to use, and that got rid of my "Privilege separation user sshd does not exist" error that I was getting before. So sshd runs now, but I can't log into it! I type in the password and get "Permission Denied" errors. I tried it both from remote and localhost, with no difference. One place site mentioned the same problem and said that a solution could be setting /dev/tty permissions to writable for all, but that already is set. I couldnt find any other suggestions really and i got mad and gave up. If someone could PLEASE help that would be SPECTACULAR!

PS...if anyone needs more info to help solve this, let me know and ill happily get it up here!

Matt

DID you used --with-shadow (or --enable-shadow) at ./configure ?

And btw boy, read the FAQ's and manuals FIRST. It seems that you want help but you don't read. The mysql related reply you learn it from manual and some things are LOGIC !

As far as I know, the configure automatically adds shadow support unless you set the --without-shadow, at least that's what it does when I compile it. I did have to enable MD5 support though. If you are using pam then it's not necessary. But if you aren't then you won't have support for MD5 passwords which most distributions use. So try enabling the option --with-md5-passwords.
If that doesn't help I'd try looking through the log files and trying to find out if there are any errors reported there which could give you a few more clues where to look. It should have already reported errors in the log files, or you could always try running it in verbose/debug mode to produce error/warning messages.

Ah, yes, forgot... sorry. Was about --with-md5

I compiled openssh just for 3 times... some time ago...