CentOS 6 ignores public keys by default when SELinux is enforced

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Nov 042011
 
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… which is quite obviously ridiculous.
Here’s a quick fix to restore public key login functionality without disabling SELinux:

# restorecon -R -v ~/.ssh

Also remember to enforce the right permissions.

# chmod 700 ~/.ssh
# chmod 600 ~/.ssh/*
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 Posted by Tom at 13:05  Tagged with: , ,

  One Response to “CentOS 6 ignores public keys by default when SELinux is enforced”

  1. Philip Paeps says:
    November 5, 2011 at 12:29

    Another reason you want to use Kerberos. Really, you do. :)

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