help with ssh

[Ian Ward Comfort]

On Mar 23, 2007, at 3:20 PM, Dave Martini 1 wrote:
> I'm setting up RSA keys for the oracle accounts on my 6 RHEL  
> machines so that I can ssh into each on as oracle without
> a password. I created the /home/oracle/.ssh files on each node.
>
> rwx------  2 oracle oinstall 4096 Mar 23 14:34 .
> drwxr-xr-x  5 oracle oinstall 4096 Mar 23 13:24 ..
> -rw-r--r--  1 oracle oinstall 5076 Mar 23 14:34 authorized_keys
> -rwx------  1 oracle oinstall   96 Mar 23 10:59 genkeys
> -rw-------  1 oracle oinstall  668 Mar 23 14:25 id_dsa
> -rw-r--r--  1 oracle oinstall  613 Mar 23 14:25 id_dsa.pub
> -rw-------  1 oracle oinstall  887 Mar 23 14:25 id_rsa
> -rw-r--r--  1 oracle oinstall  233 Mar 23 14:25 id_rsa.pub
> -rw-r--r--  1 oracle oinstall 1380 Mar 22 12:27 known_hosts
>
> All of them work except for one node. When I ssh into this  
> particular node it doesn't want to use the rsa keys it reverts
> to the standard login and prompts me for a password for oracle  
> which is shouldn't do.

> Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Put the SSH daemon on your problem child into debug mode while you  
try to get in with your RSA key.

/usr/sbin/sshd -d

--IWC