On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 09:12:17PM -0500, Kwan Lowe wrote: > When you first attempt to login, sshd is running as root. It needs to > look at your NFS mounted home directory (which is often set for no > root squash) to get the public key. But because it is no root squash, Depends on the sshd_config; "UsePrivilegeSeparation yes" (which is normally the default) means that phase is run as the destination user and not as root. -- rgds Stephen