On Tue, 2019-11-26 at 13:27 +0100, Jouk Jansen wrote: > Hi All, > > I'm trying to setup an ssh-server on F31 which logs a user in without > a > password, but with a key-exchange. I generated all the keys and > placed them > in the right locations. It still asks for the password. > > Than comes the strange : I stoped the service by "systemctl stop > sshd" and > did run "as root" /usr/sbin/sshd. And than it just worked. (tried to > stop > and start with systemctl again made the passwordless login fail > again) > > Question : why does is work with just running "/usr/sbin/sshd" but > not with > "systemctl start sshd" ? This sounds like an issue with selinux permissions on the authorizied keys file or path to it. Configure sshd to run in debug mode by setting LogLevel DEBUG3 in sshd_config, restart the service and retry. The logs will show up in journal and in /var/log/secure pointing the reason why your key was rejected. Regards, -- Jakub Jelen Senior Software Engineer Security Technologies Red Hat, Inc. _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx