[TriLUG] Passwordless SSH

[Shawn Hood]

Centos may log to /var/log/secure

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On Jan 6, 2009, at 7:46 AM, "Ron Young" <ronyoung at nc.rr.com> wrote:

> Matt,
> Here is the response I got:
>
> [root at Prismsts ~]# cd /
> [root at Prismsts /]# ls -lnd
> drwxr-xr-x  26 0 0 4096 Dec 31 11:35 .
> [root at Prismsts /]#
>
> Looks like / is actually owned by root.  Is there a way to ensure that
> selinux is not involved?
>
>
> Ron Young
> 919-621-9015
>
>
> On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 10:29 PM, Matt Pusateri
> <mpusateri at wickedtrails.com>wrote:
>
>>
>> On Jan 5, 2009, at 9:21 PM, Ron Young wrote:
>>
>>> 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
>>
>>
>> Off hand it seems like '/' has had it's perms changed.    As listed
>> here http://tinyurl.com/9wumxj   try 'ls -lnd' and see if user and
>> group id's are the same and set to root or UID=0   In any case,
>> normally pam shouldn't whine :)
>>
>>
>> Weird, I thought Centos had a /var/log/auth or /var/log/auth.log file
>> that should have had complaints about the perms on your ssh or home  
>> dir
>>
>>
>> Matt P.
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