Hello Jerome, >> I'm using ssh 1:7.2p2-5 > > Now I am also using ssh 1:7.2p2-5 , but I cannot still reproduce the issue.
8-/ > I suspect a bad interference with some pam_module present on your box but > absent on mine > and/or a privilege issue. I will try disabling some of the less used modules and see if I can at least find which one it's interacting with. > Can you confirm that pam_ssh emits not `start ssh-agent' message in > /var/log/auth.log ? > What are the permission of your $HOME/.ssh folder ? (ls -ld $HOME/.ssh folder > ) The only lines in auth.log that contain the word 'agent' are in the form: /tmp/ssh-<somerandomstring>/agent.<somepid>: No such file or directory, the last of which was from yesterday morning, before the reboot that first exhibited the issue (lack of agent startup). There are plenty more before that (mostly due to the system not shutting down cleanly with active NFS mounts and systemd), so they don't seem to be related. Maybe there's some leftover that makes pam_ssh think the agent is running already? Where could I look for? The permission for ~/.ssh are rwx------, and rw------- are the permissions for all private keys, the known_hosts, the authorized_keys and config files.
