Getting "failed message" in audit.log for ssh with host based authentication.

Solution Unverified - Updated -

Issue

  • When authenticating via host-based authentication keys, the destination server logs a failed result for the first attempt then succeeds on the subsequent attempts.
 type=USER_AUTH msg=audit(148632.38:14xx6): user pid=2xx69 uid=0 auid=501 ses=2x17 subj=unconfined_u:system_r:sshd_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 msg='op=hostbased acct="XXXXXXX" exe="/usr/sbin/sshd" hostname=? addr=10.xx.xx.xx terminal=ssh res=failed'

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  • SSH

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