[TriLUG] Passwordless SSH

[Ron Young]

Matt,
Here is the response I got:

[root at Prismsts ~]# cd /
[root at Prismsts /]# ls -lnd
drwxr-xr-x  26 0 0 4096 Dec 31 11:35 .
[root at Prismsts /]#

Looks like / is actually owned by root.  Is there a way to ensure that
selinux is not involved?


Ron Young
919-621-9015


On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 10:29 PM, Matt Pusateri
<mpusateri at wickedtrails.com>wrote:

>
> On Jan 5, 2009, at 9:21 PM, Ron Young wrote:
>
> > Sorry Matt,
> > There is not a /var/log/auth or /var/log/debug file on either machine.
> >
> > There is nothing about it in the /var/log/messages file on the target
> > machine that worked (the newer OS version).
> >
> > There is also nothing in the /var/log/messages about perms on the
> > older
> > machine (I think).  However, I get hundreds of lines of:
> >
> > pam_timestamp_check: pam_timestamp: `/' owner UID != 0
> >
> > followed by pages of:
> >
> > last message repeated 26 times
> >
> > in fact there were 27 50 line pages of this message at one point today
> > between 15:14 yesterday and 14:55 today!!
> >
> > These I do not understand at all but it seems like the machine
> > thrashes
> > about pam a lot!
> >
> > Thoughts?
> >
> > Ron Young
> > 919-621-9015
>
>
> Off hand it seems like '/' has had it's perms changed.    As listed
> here http://tinyurl.com/9wumxj   try 'ls -lnd' and see if user and
> group id's are the same and set to root or UID=0   In any case,
> normally pam shouldn't whine :)
>
>
> Weird, I thought Centos had a /var/log/auth or /var/log/auth.log file
> that should have had complaints about the perms on your ssh or home dir
>
>
> Matt P.
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