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Date:      Sat, 14 Sep 2019 23:21:59 +1000
From:      MJ <mafsys1234@gmail.com>
To:        Aryeh Friedman <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com>, FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: OT: My ssh authorized_keys doesn't work with nfs/nis
Message-ID:  <99038e82-9643-cbe8-63d7-e3a04ada43b5@gmail.com>
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On 14/09/2019 5:39 pm, Aryeh Friedman wrote:
> My ~/.ssh/authorized_keys files works fine on a machine that is not in my
> NIS domain but when I copy my id_rsa.pub (which is what I did to create the
> non-NIS authorized_keys) to my NIS account and give it the same permissions
> as the working machine it insists on asking for a password.
> 
> ssh faraway (non-NIS machine)
> does not ask for a password
> but
> ssh nearby (NIS machine) does
> 
> Both have identical authorized keys and both (and their parent dirs) are
> set to 644.  Both machines are FreeBSD 11 and the machine doing the ssh
> call is FreeBSD 12
> 

Well in desperation I guess you could:

Nuke the dud server's authorized_keys
Use "ssh-copy-id -i /your/path/to/key aryeh@nearby" to copy your pub key to the dud server.
Test with "ssh -i /your/path/to/key -vv aryeh@nearby"

Cheers
Mark.



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