It seems your monitor capabilities are different to mine: root@server3:/opt/ungleich-tools# ceph -k /var/lib/ceph/mon/ceph-server3/keyring -n mon. auth list 2018-02-16 20:34:59.257529 7fe0d5c6b700 0 librados: mon. authentication error (13) Permission denied [errno 13] error connecting to the cluster root@server3:/opt/ungleich-tools# cat /var/lib/ceph/mon/ceph-server3/keyring [mon.] key = AQCp9IVa2GmYARAAVvCGfNpXfxOoUf119KAq1g== Where you have > root@ceph-mon1:/# cat /var/lib/ceph/mon/ceph-ceph-mon1/keyring > [mon.] > key = AQD1y3RapVDCNxAAmInc8D3OPZKuTVeUcNsPug== > caps mon = "allow *" Which probably explains why it works for you, but not for me. -- Modern, affordable, Swiss Virtual Machines. Visit www.datacenterlight.ch _______________________________________________ ceph-users mailing list ceph-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.ceph.com/listinfo.cgi/ceph-users-ceph.com