On Sat, Jun 13, 2020 at 10:18:37PM +0100, Chris Narkiewicz wrote: > I have a user with a non-standard $HOME location > and I added a key to authorized_keys. > > When I try to login via SSH, I get a password prompt. > > When looking at sshd debug logs, I see this: > > debug1: Could not open authorized keys > '/var/home/user/.ssh/authorized_keys': Permission denied > > That's a but strange that ssh daemon cannot open a keys. > Why is that? Some sort of security to prevent sshd > touching anything outside /home?
>From code source, sshd daemon will use user's uid to open the authorized_keys file. I assume the file permission of '/var/home/user/.ssh/authorized_keys' doesn't allow 'user' to open it ? Please note it could be a problem with permission of the file, or with one directory in the path. Thanks. -- Sebastien Marie
