[CentOS] SSH login from user with empty password

Iurii Andamasov andamasov at gmail.com
Thu Oct 10 19:52:32 UTC 2013


Hello,
check permissions  on <user's home>/.ssh/authorized_keys.
i guess issue related to permissions but i can be wrong
  
On 10.10.2013, at 15:44, Michael Schultz <m.schultz at srz.de> wrote:

> Hello list,
> 
> on a CentOS 6.4 machine I'm creating accounts with empty passwords. Each
> user's public key is located in <user's home>/.ssh/authorized_keys.
> 
> When trying to ssh into that machine, following error message is displayed:
> Permission denied (publickey).
> 
> In /etc/ssh/sshd_config I've set:
> PasswordAuthentication no
> UsePAM no
> 
> If I set a password for the users, the public key auth works without any
> problems.
> 
> Could anyone tell me what I'm missing here?
> 
> 
> Thanks
> Michael
> 
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