SSH Public Key doesn't survive reboot

[budmannxx]

I have successfully set up SSH to require public key authentication for a user in my wheel group. Whenever I reboot FreeNAS, however, the user's SSH Public Key is cleared out and I have to paste it in again. Seems like I'm missing something obvious--has anyone else experienced this?

 

[James]

Did you paste the public key in the user account? http://doc.freenas.org/index.php/Users

 

[budmannxx]

Yes, hit Modify User, and paste into the SSH Public Key box. After hitting save, I can then SSH in via PuTTY with that user. It's only when I reboot FreeNAS does that pasted key get cleared out.

Forgot to add, I'm on FreeNAS-8.0.3-RELEASE-p1-x64 (9591).

 

[James]

Sounds like a bug then. Can you double-check if support.freenas.org has an existing ticket, and if not, create one? I know there is a similar issue with rsync saving keys from the GUI, so it may be related.

 

[budmannxx]

Created: https://support.freenas.org/ticket/1217

It would be cool if a couple other people could try to replicate.

 

[budmannxx]

Such an easy fix. My user's home directory was just /mnt, which won't work because it's not persistent. I changed it to /mnt/freenas (my pool, a persistent location), and the SSH key survived reboots.

 

[James]

We'll get this documented in the user section of the Guide.