I've always had pam_tty_audit enabled and I can't login anymore after emerge pulled in audit-2.2.2-r2 which seems to be pulled in by pam. # grep audit /etc/pam.d/system-auth session required pam_tty_audit.so disable=* enable=root I've temporarily commented out that line now until the issue is fixed. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. ssh server 2. 3. Actual Results: kicked out immediately Expected Results: Get shell on server