[solved] ssh -Can´t log in with public key when started by systemd

[mibob2]

Hi,
I´m running a Centos 7.2 server. For backup purposes I try to set up a typical rsync over ssh work environment. So I set up ssh to allow private/public key access. But whatever I did I was always prompted for the password. After double checking any settings file, the auth key files etc. I stopped ssh with

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service sshd stop

. Then I started sshd with

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/usr/sbin/sshd -D

to find out what might be wrong on the server side - to my surprise private/public key access works! Same with

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/usr/sbin/sshd

, login with private key works. Starting ssh

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service sshd start

I get the password prompt, restarting the system also doesn´t change the behaviour. So what must I add to systemd to make the public key access work? Other changes to

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/etc/ssh/sshd_config

like turning on and off root access via ssh are recognized by the systemd start/stop cycle. What am I missing?

Greetings,

Mike

[TrevorH]

restorecon -r $USERHOMEDIR/.ssh

[mibob2]

Hi,

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restorecon -r $USERHOMEDIR/.ssh

did the trick, thanks a lot!

Best regards,

Mike