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SSH Permission Denied for User After Changing its Home Directory (Doc ID 2523432.1)

Last updated on DECEMBER 08, 2022

Applies to:

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure - Version N/A to N/A [Release 1.0]
Linux OS - Version Oracle Linux 6.0 to Oracle Linux 7.6 [Release OL6 to OL7U6]
Linux x86-64

Symptoms

 Getting permission denied when we are trying  to do ssh to the system using new user created

[localuser@]$ ssh -i  <PRIVATE_KEY> user1@<PUBLIC IP>
Permission denied (publickey,gssapi-keyex,gssapi-with-mic).
 

Changes

Created a new user call  user1 with different home location "/new/home"

Created subdirectory .ssh and authotized_key file with the correct public key. 

New home directoy is using the correct permission and owner.

 

Cause

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