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Re: SSH key authentication - can only login as root

Subject: Re: SSH key authentication - can only login as root
Date: Thu, 07 Sep 2006 14:17:57 +0200
Greg Wooledge wrote:
On Wed, Sep 06, 2006 at 12:10:48PM +0200, Tomasz Chmielewski wrote:
I have a problem with logging in using keys (on Debian).

Sep 6 11:56:13 thecus sshd[18730]: debug1: trying public key file /home/checkuser/.ssh/authorized_keys
Sep 6 11:56:13 thecus sshd[18730]: debug1: restore_uid: 0/0
Sep 6 11:56:13 thecus sshd[18730]: debug1: temporarily_use_uid: 1001/1001 (e=0/0)
Sep 6 11:56:13 thecus sshd[18730]: debug1: trying public key file /home/checkuser/.ssh/authorized_keys2

ls -ld / /home /home/checkuser /home/checkuser/.ssh ls -ld /home/checkuser/.ssh/authorized_keys*

I bet one or more of these directories/files has group write permission
on it.

Nope, all directories/files, starting from /home/checkuser, have only user permissions.


Besides, this wouldn't explain why this user can login if UID=0, and cannot login if UID=1001.


-- Tomasz Chmielewski http://wpkg.org


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