ssh-agent issue, cannot run as user but can as root

socalheel · 07-09-2014, 03:56 PM

i'm cannot connect using ssh-agent from our web server to our repo server to pull site files.

i created the ssh keys using the user account (NOT root) and using

Code:

ssh-keygen

.

i can run my ssh-agent command as root and it works fine, but when i run as the user, i cannot.

any ideas why this is failing?

here is my command:

Code:

ssh-agent bash -c "ssh-add /home/username/.ssh/id_rsa;git clone gituser@git.workspace.com:clientname/reponame.git /home/username/sitefiles-temp"

here are the results:
as root:

Code:

Identity added: /home/username/.ssh/id_rsa (/home/username/.ssh/id_rsa)
Initialized empty Git repository in /home/username/sitefiles-temp/.git/
remote: Counting objects: 5887, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (4184/4184), done.
remote: Total 5887 (delta 2061), reused 4850 (delta 1432)
Receiving objects: 100% (5887/5887), 18.14 MiB | 7.19 MiB/s, done.
limit = 0.1, actual = 7.011/2061)
perf stats for git-upload-pack on repo 'clientname/reponame.git':
  user CPU time: 4.89% (383/2061)
  sys  CPU time: 2.12
   elapsed time: 8.959208
Resolving deltas: 100% (2061/2061), done.

as user:

Code:

Identity added: /home/username/.ssh/id_rsa (/home/username/.ssh/id_rsa)
Initialized empty Git repository in /home/username/sitefiles-temp/.git/
gituser@git.workspace..com's password:

here are the directory permissions

Code:

[root@websrvr01 username]# ls -alh
total 40K
drwxr-xr-x    4 username users  4.0K Jul  9 16:41 .
drwxr-xr-x. 118 root          root   4.0K Jul  9 15:52 ..
-rw-------    1 username users  7.1K Jul  9 16:40 .bash_history
-rwxr-xr-x    1 username users    18 Feb 21  2013 .bash_logout
-rwxr-xr-x    1 username users   176 Feb 21  2013 .bash_profile
-rwxr-xr-x    1 username users   124 Feb 21  2013 .bashrc
-rwxr-xr-x    1 username users  2.0K Jul  9 16:31 deploy.sh
drwxrwxr-x    4 username apache 4.0K Jul  9 16:28 httpdocs
drwx------    2 username users  4.0K Jul  9 16:38 .ssh
You have mail in /var/spool/mail/root
[root@websrvr01 username ]# ls -lah .ssh
total 20K
drwx------ 2 username users 4.0K Jul  9 16:38 .
drwxr-xr-x 4 username users 4.0K Jul  9 16:41 ..
-rw------- 1 username users 1.7K Jul  9 16:38 id_rsa
-rw-r--r-- 1 username users  417 Jul  9 16:38 id_rsa.pub
-rw-r--r-- 1 username users  409 Jul  9 16:38 known_hosts

socalheel · 07-09-2014, 06:59 PM

after so many freakin hours i figured this out.

this was a git problem not updating the authorized_key file on a commit. our commit wasn't successful, which causes git NOT to update the key file. once i resolved the commit problem, the authorized_key file was updated and voilia! success.

the reason root was successful was because it wasn't using the username id_rsa key pair ... defaulted to the root's key pair, even though i specified the username. i verified which key pair it was using by ssh -v -i <private key name>