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From: Jeff Blaine <jblaine@kickflop.net>
Subject: Re: Automounting of user dir failing for SSH publickey auth
Date: Mon, 11 May 2009 15:17:00 -0400
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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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