Automounting of user dir failing for SSH publickey auth

Automounting of user dir failing for SSH publickey auth

[Jeff Blaine]

RHELv5 with kernel 2.6.18-53

SSH publickey authentication is failing for our users with
automounted home directories because the mount (/home/joe)
is expired and unmounted and sshd tries to find
/home/joe/.ssh/authorized_keys

If we 'cd /home/joe' every minute on the sshd host,
the mount is retained and publickey auth works every
time.

What are we doing wrong?  Surely this should work without
hackery to keep the share mounted.

Re: Automounting of user dir failing for SSH publickey auth

[Jeff Blaine]

This appears to be the problem:

  http://www.mail-archive.com/rhelv5-list@redhat.com/msg01527.html

More when I know it, clearly only for the sake of the
mailing list archives and others trying to solve the
same problem.

Jeff Blaine wrote:
> RHELv5 with kernel 2.6.18-53
> 
> SSH publickey authentication is failing for our users with
> automounted home directories because the mount (/home/joe)
> is expired and unmounted and sshd tries to find
> /home/joe/.ssh/authorized_keys
> 
> If we 'cd /home/joe' every minute on the sshd host,
> the mount is retained and publickey auth works every
> time.
> 
> What are we doing wrong?  Surely this should work without
> hackery to keep the share mounted.
> 
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