Hey there,

I’ve tried to set up SSH public key authentication on a new cluster pair (8.2.1P1) today and failed miserably – has anyone configured that as of yet?

What I’ve done (and what seems to be the correct procedure) is:

security login create -username admin -application ssh -authmethod publickey -role admin -vserver CLUSTERNAME

security login publickey create -vserver CLUSTERNAME -username admin -index 0 -publickey "ssh-rsa AAAAB3....C8=" -comment ANEXIA

The resulting configuration looks like that:

::> security login show -application ssh

Vserver: CLUSTERNAME

                             Authentication                  Acct

UserName         Application Method         Role Name        Locked

---------------- ----------- -------------- ---------------- ------

admin            ssh         password       admin            no

admin            ssh         publickey      admin            -

2 entries were displayed.

::> security login publickey show

Vserver: CLUSTERNAME

UserName: admin            Index: 0

Public Key:

ssh-rsa AAAAB3....C8=

Fingerprint:

a7:08:e1:0d:22:ea:59:97:f9:3e:5c:1d:2a:84:ec:40

Bubblebabble fingerprint:

xokel-...-soxex

Comment:

ANEXIA

But when I try to login using username „admin“ and my private key (which works on hundreds of other boxes and also on all of my 7-mode filers), the filer just seems to refuse my key and prompts me for the password.

Also (maybe unrelated), when logging in via SSH, I do always get this warning message:

Could not chdir to home directory /var/home/admin: No such file or directory

Getting this on two Clustered Data Ontap systems so far, both running 8.2.1.

Thanks,

Alexander Griesser

System-Administrator

ANEXIA Internetdienstleistungs GmbH

E-Mail: ag@anexia.at

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