sshd Authentication refused
David Highley
dhighley at highley-recommended.com
Tue Jul 13 19:41:25 UTC 2010
"Rick Sewill wrote:"
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> On 07/13/2010 01:43 PM, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
> > On Tue, 13 Jul 2010 11:16:46 -0700 (PDT)
> > David Highley <dhighley at highley-recommended.com> wrote:
> >
> >> New install of Fedora 13 we get the following /var/log/secure entry
> >> when we ssh from a Fedora 12 system to the Fedora 13 system:
> >> Authentication refused: bad ownership or modes for
> >> file /home/dhighley/.ssh/authorized_keys
> >>
> >> We have checked and tried different modes until we are blue in the
> >> face. Have read the upates notes for openssh and Fedora 13 release.
> >> Googled the net for know issues and bugzilla.redhat.com. We did check
> >> for selinux blocks and found none.
> >>
> >> User home directory is auto NFS mounted and we use NIS. This works
> >> Fedora 12 to Fedora 12.
> >
> > You may want to use 'ssh-copy-id' to copy the key over to the f13
> > system. That will setup the right permissions and such automatically
> > for you.
Where would I copy it if I'm using auto mounted home directories?
> >
> > Also, you will want to see if there are any selinux alerts on the f13
> > machine. 'ausearch -m avc -ts today' can list the ones from today.
See above, we did check for selinux denials. We also did a restorcon -v
-R .ssh just in case and nothing changed.
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> > kevin
> >
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> I cannot explain how f12 <--> f12 works, but f12 <--> f13 does not.
> I can only guess there is something different for the NFS mount -or-
> something different regarding NIS.
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> One possibility, which I consider very, very remote is the following.
>
> I may be wrong but I think the ownership and modes for all the parent
> directories from your /home/dhighley/.ssh directory also matter.
Directory .ssh has mode of 700.
File .ssh/authorized_keys has a mode of 600
Home directory dhighley has a mode of 750
All are owned by the user and the user's group.
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> I assume you made sure /home/dhighley/.ssh is mode 700.
> What is the mode of /home/dhlighley? Is it 755 (I think that's okay).
> I think any write mode for group or other would be bad.
> I assume /home/dhlighley is owned by you, the user.
>
> What about /home? Who owns it? What is it's mode?
> I think root must own it.
> I think only root should have write access to it.
Mode of /home is 755 and owned by root on the NFS server and the client
Fedora 13 system.
>
> I actually assume the ownership and modes are all correct...the
> possibility of this being the problem seems exceedingly rare to me, but
> please check.
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> Another possibility, which I also consider remote, but is worth asking.
> On the f13 machine, when you log in as dhlighley, is the user name only
> found in NIS? On occasion, if one is testing something new, one might
> put in a local account in the /etc/passwd file, and forget it is there.
> Depending on your /etc/nsswitch.conf file, the local file is probably
> checked before NIS.
There are no local user file entries on the Fedora 13 system.
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> Sorry, can't think of anything else. Others have already mentioned selinux.
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