SSH login FAILed on Red Had Enterprise Linux 6.2 ################################################ :date: 2012-06-18T18:28:45Z :category: blog :tags: linux,selinux,ssh,red-hat :url: blog/2012/6/18/ssh-login-failed-on-red-hat-enterprise-linux-6-2.html :save_as: blog/2012/6/18/ssh-login-failed-on-red-hat-enterprise-linux-6-2.html :status: published :author: Gergely Polonkai Now this was a mistake I should not have done… About a month ago I have moved my AWS EC2 machine from Amazon Linux to RHEL 6.2. This was good. I have moved all my files and stuff, recreated my own user, everything was just fine. Then I copied my `gitosis `_ account (user ``git`` and its home directory). Then I tried to log in. It failed. I was blaming OpenSSH for a week or so, changed the config file in several ways, tried to change the permissions on ``~git/.ssh/*``, but still nothing. Permission were denied, I was unable to push any of my development changes. Now after a long time of trying, I coincidently ``tail -f``-ed ``/var/log/audit/audit.log`` (wanted to open ``auth.log`` instead) and that was my first good point. It told me that ``sshd`` was unable to read ``~git/.ssh/authorized_keys``, which gave me the idea to run ``restorecon`` on ``/home/git``. It solved the problem. All hail SELinux and RBAC!