Re: PubkeyAuth disallowed for root only? - solved

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" 
<dirk.schulz@kinzesberg.de> 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