Re: [CentOS] ssh prompting for password

2010-11-18 Thread Devin Reade
bluethundr wrote: > [bluethu...@virtcent01:~]#ls -l .ssh/authorized_keys > -rw--- 1 1001 1002 1597 Nov 15 12:02 .ssh/authorized_keys By any chance do you have a UID/GID mismatch between machines? I'm not convinced that it would result in the behavior matched, but the fact that 1001 and 1002

Re: [CentOS] ssh prompting for password

2010-11-17 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 11/16/2010 06:19 PM, Kwan Lowe wrote: > On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 9:14 PM, Stephen Harris wrote: >> Depends on the sshd_config; "UsePrivilegeSeparation yes" (which is >> normally the default) means that phase is run as the destination user >> and not as root. > > To clarify, the sshd listener run

Re: [CentOS] ssh prompting for password

2010-11-16 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 9:14 PM, Stephen Harris wrote: > On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 09:12:17PM -0500, Kwan Lowe wrote: >> When you first attempt to login, sshd is running as root. It needs to >> look at your NFS mounted home directory (which is often set for no >> root squash) to get the public key.

Re: [CentOS] ssh prompting for password

2010-11-16 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 9:14 PM, Stephen Harris wrote: > On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 09:12:17PM -0500, Kwan Lowe wrote: >> When you first attempt to login, sshd is running as root. It needs to >> look at your NFS mounted home directory (which is often set for no >> root squash) to get the public key.

Re: [CentOS] ssh prompting for password

2010-11-16 Thread Stephen Harris
On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 09:12:17PM -0500, Kwan Lowe wrote: > When you first attempt to login, sshd is running as root. It needs to > look at your NFS mounted home directory (which is often set for no > root squash) to get the public key. But because it is no root squash, Depends on the sshd_confi

Re: [CentOS] ssh prompting for password

2010-11-16 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 4:05 PM, bluethundr wrote: > > So therefore my RSA key should already be in my authorized_keys on any > host. However logging into the virtual network, I always get prompted > for a password. just for the heck of it, I scp'd the key over again to > one of the virtual hosts

Re: [CentOS] ssh prompting for password

2010-11-16 Thread Todd Denniston
bluethundr wrote, On 11/16/2010 04:05 PM: > hello list > > I have a network mounted home directory shared between all hosts on my > network: > > > So therefore my RSA key should already be in my authorized_keys on any > host. However logging into the virtual network, I always get prompted > fo

Re: [CentOS] ssh prompting for password

2010-11-16 Thread John Kennedy
On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 16:31, wrote: > bluethundr wrote: > > hello list > > > > I have a network mounted home directory shared between all hosts on my > > network: > > > So therefore my RSA key should already be in my authorized_keys on any > > host. However logging into the virtual network, I

Re: [CentOS] ssh prompting for password

2010-11-16 Thread m . roth
bluethundr wrote: > hello list > > I have a network mounted home directory shared between all hosts on my > network: > So therefore my RSA key should already be in my authorized_keys on any > host. However logging into the virtual network, I always get prompted > for a password. just for the heck

Re: [CentOS] ssh prompting for password

2010-11-16 Thread John Kennedy
A few things to look for: Make sure .ssh and authorized_keys files are permissioned to 700 and 600 respectively. If they are wide open then ssh will skip them. Check /var/log/secure on both machines. That may give you a clue ssh with -vvv (or just -v) and see if you get errors. I just had the sam

[CentOS] ssh prompting for password

2010-11-16 Thread bluethundr
hello list I have a network mounted home directory shared between all hosts on my network: [bluethu...@lcent03:~]#df -h FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00 140G 4.4G 128G 4% / /dev/sda1 99M 35M 60M 37%