[TriLUG] Passwordless SSH

[Ron Young]

Sorry Matt,
There is not a /var/log/auth or /var/log/debug file on either machine.

There is nothing about it in the /var/log/messages file on the target
machine that worked (the newer OS version).

There is also nothing in the /var/log/messages about perms on the older
machine (I think).  However, I get hundreds of lines of:

pam_timestamp_check: pam_timestamp: `/' owner UID != 0

followed by pages of:

last message repeated 26 times

in fact there were 27 50 line pages of this message at one point today
between 15:14 yesterday and 14:55 today!!

These I do not understand at all but it seems like the machine thrashes
about pam a lot!

Thoughts?

Ron Young
919-621-9015


On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 7:17 PM, Matt Pusateri <mpusateri at wickedtrails.com>wrote:

> Out of curiosity, did anything about perms get logged in your /var/log/
> messages or /var/log/auth or /var/log/debug ?   Usually if perms on
> directories are wrong you'll see a cryptic message in the log files
>
> On Jan 5, 2009, at 5:27 PM, Ron Young wrote:
>
> > BINGO!!  Thanks Tarus!!  I do not know how the perms on /root got
> > changed
> > but they did.
> > SSH works in both ways now!!
> >
> > Thanks to all for your time, education and assistance.
> >
> >
> > Ron Young
> > 919-621-9015
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 5:01 PM, Tarus Balog <tarus at opennms.org> wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> On Jan 5, 2009, at 4:57 PM, Ron Young wrote:
> >>
> >>> Thanks also Steven.  The results are the same.  Passwordless in one
> >>> direction only.
> >>
> >>
> >> Ah! perms on your home dir?
> >>
> >> -T
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