On 12/11/2018 13:49, Alan Taylor wrote:
Greetings,
I have an ssh problem - one user can use it successfully, another
cannot. I have checked and rechecked permissions until I am blue in
the face …
At the moment just trying to ssh into the same machine I am on for the
problem user (the other user can ssh successfully, both to the console
machine and outwards to others).
Agent problem ? The successful user was setup in the installation, the
problem user was added at the command line after initial setup.
Log output follows, appears to fail after the preauth stage …
Any suggestions gratefully accepted
I can't give a definitive answer but I had a similar problem recently.
The reason I can't be definitive is that it just went away. It was
though an agent problem and it started following some system upgrades
and only showed itself on a single box and when being used
non-interactively.
This doesn't look like your situation but it may be related.
Check for the existence of socket files in /tmp (along the lines of
/tmp/ssh-????????/agent.??????), on a per user basis. Try to ssh using
said socket file something along the lines of;
'SSH_AUTH_SOCK=/tmp/ssh-????????/agent.?????? ssh -p blah blah'
this worked for me, but as I say, it weirdly went away before I found
the real underlying problem. I now don't need to use this mechanism,
dunno why and I was too busy to continue to track it down.
Hope this helps.
--
Mike Howard
