OT: My ssh authorized_keys doesn't work with nfs/nis

[Aryeh Friedman]

Problem solved it turned out to be really simple the home dir was 777 when
the widest ssh wants it is 755 (all the permissions I where look at before
where the .ssh dir not the home dir)

On Sat, Sep 14, 2019 at 9:22 AM MJ <mafsys1234 at gmail.com> wrote:

>
>
> On 14/09/2019 5:39 pm, Aryeh Friedman wrote:
> > My ~/.ssh/authorized_keys files works fine on a machine that is not in my
> > NIS domain but when I copy my id_rsa.pub (which is what I did to create
> the
> > non-NIS authorized_keys) to my NIS account and give it the same
> permissions
> > as the working machine it insists on asking for a password.
> >
> > ssh faraway (non-NIS machine)
> > does not ask for a password
> > but
> > ssh nearby (NIS machine) does
> >
> > Both have identical authorized keys and both (and their parent dirs) are
> > set to 644.  Both machines are FreeBSD 11 and the machine doing the ssh
> > call is FreeBSD 12
> >
>
> Well in desperation I guess you could:
>
> Nuke the dud server's authorized_keys
> Use "ssh-copy-id -i /your/path/to/key aryeh at nearby" to copy your pub key
> to the dud server.
> Test with "ssh -i /your/path/to/key -vv aryeh at nearby"
>
> Cheers
> Mark.
>


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Aryeh M. Friedman, Lead Developer, http://www.PetiteCloud.org