On Thursday 19 April 2001 12:50, Lutz Jaenicke wrote:
On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 12:40:14PM +0200, Maarten van den Berg wrote:
[replying to my own post]
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Is this expected behaviour ? ssh + nfs weirdness ?
I have seen quit a lot of things but nothing like this. I might imagine problems when _importing_ the home directory via NFS, since root permissions are not available and sshd tends to run as root (therefore sshd changes permissions during access to the $HOME/.ssh directory). I however cannot imagine in which way the NFS _export_ of your home directory should influence the way sshd works locally. (That doesn't mean I say that I don't believe you. I just say that it is not logical and there must be a better explanation. It just doesn't make sense.)
Agreed, and I did plan on doing more research anyhow why this happened. I'm still truely convinced though that my authorized_keys file was 100% correct, so I'm baffled myself...
[This does not cover the security implications of using NFS, that's another topic.]
I'm aware of that, but since this is a home LAN without any other users I disregard that issue for now. Besides, though /home is EXported, it is not IMported on the clients on mountpoint /home, but on /data. So, no real problems there. I'll change the exports in something less evil though, it must only provide many Gigs of random storage, nothing special at all. Maarten