fedora-infrastructure

#12605 Unable to SSH into homedir on fedorapeople.org
Closed: Fixed by jarema. Opened by jarema.

Closed: Fixed
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I followed the instructions:

  1. My account is still existing and up to date: https://accounts.fedoraproject.org/user/jarema/
  2. I was granted access to at least one group: websites-apps-cms
  3. On SSH and GPG keys settings, I checked my key, it was still registered and valid. I tried to SSH login with my SSH key (ED25519) and it did not work.
    I therefore added a new one (ECDSA), waited for an hour and it did not work.
    I added both, waited a few hours and it did not work no matter which Identity file I provided.

As the output shows, my SSH client and the server successfully negotiated algorithms:

👤 Starting a new connection to: "fedorapeople.org" port "22"
⚙️ Starting address resolution of "fedorapeople.org"
⚙️ Address resolution finished
⚙️ Connecting to "152.19.134.196" port "22"
👤 Connection to "fedorapeople.org" established
⚙️ Starting SSH session
⚙️ Remote server: SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_8.7
⚙️ Agreed KEX algorithm: curve25519-sha256
⚙️ Agreed Host Key algorithm: ssh-ed25519
⚙️ Agreed server-to-client cipher: aes256-gcm@openssh.com MAC: INTEGRATED-AES-GCM
⚙️ Agreed client-to-server cipher: aes256-gcm@openssh.com MAC: INTEGRATED-AES-GCM
⚙️ Agreed client-to-server compression: none
⚙️ Agreed server-to-client compression: none
⚙️ Handshake finished
👤 Checking host key: fe:2f:51:5f:90:01:f3:d5:ee:1e:8b:e3:03:ac:6f:cd
👤 Host "fedorapeople.org":"22" is known and matches
👤 Authenticating to "fedorapeople.org":"22" as "jarema"
⚙️ Available client authentication methods: publickey,password,keyboard-interactive
⚙️ Authentication that can continue: gssapi-with-mic,publickey
👤 Authenticating using publickey method
😨 Connection to "fedorapeople.org" closed with error: end of file

Additionally, my page at https://jarema.fedorapeople.org/ throws a forbidden error, and I'm not listed on https://fedorapeople.org.
Could somebody maybe look at server-side why my login gets denied please? Thanks in advance!

P/s: Looking at similar issues, several people got the same problem because their groups were not in the fedora-contributor group. Could someone please check that too?

Metadata Update from @zlopez:
- Issue priority set to: Waiting on Assignee (was: Needs Review)
- Issue tagged with: Needs investigation, low-gain, ops

So I quickly checked and your user doesn't have a home folder on the fedorapeople machine.

I also checked the group and websites-apps-cms is not in fedora-contributor group. I added it. Could you try now?

I can now SSH into fedorapeople, thank you!

However, the https://jarema.fedorapeople.org/ page still throws a forbidden error, is this something that should be concerned?

You need to create a public_html directory under your home directory.
Follow instructions at https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/fedorapeople.org

I got it, thanks for your help! Much appreciated o7

Metadata Update from @jarema:
- Issue close_status updated to: Fixed
- Issue status updated to: Closed (was: Open)
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