I need password-less ssh between all Linux systems on my LAN. Worked
great until some weeks (?) ago. Still works for opening sessions from my
laptop to run on the server. But when the server opens a session on the
laptop, all at sudden a password is required.
My configuration is slightly complex: my systems are multi-boot with
several OS-partitions (for instance to ease coexistance between the
production system and cauldron). To simplify key management, I keep the
key files in a template-directory in a shared (non-OS) partition,
replacing the files in $HOME/.ssh by symbolic links to files in that
directory (and, the server and the laptop are configured as identical as
possible, in particular, same ssh_config and sshd_config files).
I can make (sounds easy, was quite a loss of time to find out) the
problem come and go by having $HOME/.ssh/authorized-keys as a link into
the shared directory (come), or using a copy of the template file (go) -
as said, the problem only appears on the laptop (and no problem having
the public and private key files implemented as links). Note: the
permissions are ok (0600 for the private key file and for authorized keys).
For the user that is a regression - is this a bug to be filed?, is it
due to some security enhancement and just bad luck?
- [Mageia-discuss] password-less ssh Juergen Harms
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