SSH passwordless login does not work on NFS mounted home directory
Issue
SSH passwordless login does not work on NFS mounted home directory.
- User is not able login using ssh key. SSH keeps asking for password.
- No issue with password login.
- User home directories
/home
is NFS mounted -
~/.ssh/authorized_keys
appears to have correct file ownership and permission# ls -al /home/bob/.ssh total 8 drwx------. 2 bob bob 43 Sep 2 09:48 . drwx------. 3 bob bob 113 Sep 2 09:48 .. -rw-------. 1 bob bob 407 Sep 2 09:33 authorized_keys -r--------. 1 bob bob 1679 Sep 2 09:33 id_rsa
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
- OpenSSH
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