[Novalug] SSH key auth issue (brain fart!)
Nick Danger
nick@hackermonkey.com
Wed Nov 27 19:23:25 EST 2013
I cannot get the ssh key auth working for one user, specifically the
_nagios user. I CAN for my own user. It all looks the same to me so I
figured I must be missing something somewhere.... Details below.
Server1 - OpenBSD, running nagios. (user "_nagios" SSH's to another
OpenBSD server for checks, and that works just fine)
Server2 - Linux, CentOS. Has users nickdanger and _nagios.
From Server1:
$ uname -a
OpenBSD server1.hackermonkey.com 5.2 GENERIC#309 amd64
$ whoami
_nagios
$ ssh nickdanger@server2
Last login: Wed Nov 27 19:14:51 2013 from server1.hackermonkey.com
[nickdanger@server2~]$ logout
Connection to server2 closed.
$ ssh _nagios@server2
_nagios@server2's password:
$
Can't figure out why its asking for a password and not using the key on
server2. Permissions look fine. File is the same for both users. (and if
I DID put the password in above, I would connect to server2)
Server2: (information)
[root@server2 home]# ls -la
total 16
drwxr-xr-x. 4 root root 4096 Nov 27 18:55 .
dr-xr-xr-x. 26 root root 4096 Nov 27 16:44 ..
drwx------. 3 _nagios _nagios 4096 Nov 27 17:48 _nagios
drwx------. 3 nickdanger nickdanger 4096 Nov 27 18:22 nickdanger
[root@server2 home]# cd _nagios/
[root@server2 _nagios]# ls -la
total 16
drwx------. 3 _nagios _nagios 4096 Nov 27 17:48 .
drwxr-xr-x. 4 root root 4096 Nov 27 18:55 ..
-rw-------. 1 _nagios _nagios 34 Nov 27 17:48 .bash_history
drwx------. 2 _nagios _nagios 4096 Nov 27 18:58 .ssh
[root@server2 _nagios]# cd .ssh/
[root@server2 .ssh]# ls -la
total 12
drwx------. 2 _nagios _nagios 4096 Nov 27 18:58 .
drwx------. 3 _nagios _nagios 4096 Nov 27 17:48 ..
-rw-------. 1 _nagios _nagios 860 Nov 27 18:58 authorized_keys
[root@server2 .ssh]# diff ~nickdanger/.ssh/authorized_keys authorized_keys
[root@server2 .ssh]#
This HAS to be something stupid. I can't even blame early Tday rummy
eggnog as I haven't had any yet!
Nick
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