[SOLVED] SSH Login Zimbra User

[bonoboslr]

RHEL5-64 ZCS 5.02:
Installation was fine however in the admin interface there is an option for servers. I click on it and i get the error:

Message: system failure: exception during auth {RemoteManager: my host.name->zimbra@myhost.name:22} Error code: service.FAILURE Details:soap:Receiver

We do not allow password authentication using ssh so I generated a key for the zimbra user and it works fine if I su to the zimbra user and ssh to myhost.name.

Is there any useful information anywhere that can tell me why this fails?

[mmorse]

Welcome to the forums,
Assuming you're using the standard ssh port:
1. Check /etc/sshd_config and be sure it's set to 22
2. stop/start/restart sshd

/etc/init.d/ssh restart

3. su - zimbra
4. Be sure zimbra's ssh port is set to 22

zmprov ms server.domain.com zimbraRemoteManagementPort 22

5. Generate new ssh keys

cd /opt/zimbra/bin/
./zmsshkeygen

6. Deploy the keys

./zmupdateauthkeys

To test this, you can run the following command:

ssh -vi .ssh/zimbra_identity -o strictHostKeyChecking=no zimbra@server.domain.com -p 22

-Shouldn't prompt you for a password at this point...then check the admin console mail queues area.
If you continue to get that error please see this doc for some more ideas Mail Queue Monitoring - Zimbra :: Wiki

[bonoboslr]

Thanks, this worked. I had to do a little bit of hacking because of our ldap authentication setup, but it works.

Thanks