On Tue, 29 Mar 2005, Tom Van Doorsselaere wrote: > Looks like everything is configured fine, for SSHD that is. > Unfortunately PAM also comes into the game. > > I had a similar error some time ago. If I'm not mistaken, I had to > adjust /etc/pam.d/sshd to something like this: > > -------------/etc/pam.d/sshd--------------- > account required pam_stack.so service=system-auth > password required pam_stack.so service=system-auth > session required pam_stack.so service=system-auth > auth required /lib/security/pam_warn.so > auth required /lib/security/pam_deny.so > ------------------------------------------- > > The last two lines are there to remove password logins.
You shouldn't need to mess with PAM config files to use key auth with ssh - this sounds like a workaround rather than a fix for the original problem. In my case, everything just worked, out of the box, I didn't need to mess with configs for sshd or PAM. -- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list