pfSense

I tried to add a SSH key to the default admin user, the authorized_key files is created successfully:

1. pwd
   /home
2. ls la admin/.ssh/authorized_keys
   -rw-r--r- 1 root wheel 604 Dec 13 21:11 admin/.ssh/authorized_keys

I also tried to define a new user and add a SSH key, this also works:

1. ls la ppomes/.ssh/authorized_keys
   -rw-r--r- 1 ppomes nobody 604 Dec 13 21:18 ppomes/.ssh/authorized_keys

Can you confirm you are talking about the ${HOME}/.ssh/authorized_keys file ?

This is the first I've tried it on 2.0 (in a long while at least, maybe ever). I don't have a .ssh directory at all.

[admin@pfsense.local]/root(4):ls -l ~admin/.ssh
ls: /root/.ssh: No such file or directory

Running a snapshot from today, could be something that broke recently.

Same on a different box, running a Dec. 6 snapshot.

Strange ! I'am also running a snapshot from today (the first one of the day: http://snapshots.pfsense.org/FreeBSD_RELENG_8_0/i386/pfSense_HEAD/updates/pfSense-Full-Update-2.0-ALPHA-20091213-0603.tgz).

I tried again:

1. pwd
   /home/admin
2. rm -rf .ssh/

In the gui, I simply saved the user (the ssh key as already entered). And then:

1. ls la .ssh/
   total 6
   drwx----- 2 root wheel 512 Dec 13 21:29 .
   drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 512 Dec 13 21:29 ..
   rw-r--r- 1 root wheel 604 Dec 13 21:29 authorized_keys

Are you looking in /home/admin/.ssh or /root/.ssh ?

As of 38564fde256e83e26f1f65d28ff064e835206ec9 this has regressed. The fix was reverted for some reason in that commit. I don't really know whether there was any particular reason for that or if it needs to go somewhere else now.