Hi folks,
thanks to all who helped. It is solved. Some brainless guy had changed
ownership and rights of root's home directory.
Dirk
--On 19. April 2007 16:31:22 +0200 "Dirk H. Schulz"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi folks,
we have a very weird phenomenon:
On two of our RedHat EL4 Update 4 servers root cannot login via ssh using
public keys. All other users can. root is asked for a password instead.
sshd_config is RHEL4 default (that means pubkey auth allowed etc.), and
the rest is as well. The public keys are correctly appended to
/root/.ssh/authorized_keys. Rights on .ssh and its files are correct. I
have even tarred+gzipped and copied roots .ssh directory to another
server and tested there.
I have compared lots of things (sshd_config, pam config, even roots
.bash_profile) to a reference system where it works - everything I have
thought of is exactly the same.
PubkeyAuth has worked fine on the problem servers, but one of the admins
must have changed something, and of course no one remembers anything. I
am sure it is something small and silly I overlook.
Any hint and help is appreciated.
Dirk
