Unable to do passwordless login to FreeNAS

Question

I'm trying to use this command to allow me passwordless login to a FreeNAS box:

cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub | ssh [email protected] 'cat >> ~/.ssh/authorized_keys'

But I get:

/root/.ssh/authorized_keys: Read-only file system.

If I log in to box as root, then ls ~/.ssh I see

drwx------  2 root  wheel   512 Aug 22 18:34 ./
drwxr-xr-x  3 root  wheel   512 Sep  1 19:16 ../
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel   806 Aug 22 18:39 authorized_keys
-rw-------  1 root  wheel  1675 Aug 18 21:50 id_rsa
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel   400 Aug 22 18:34 known_hosts

And if I ls ~ I see

drwx------   2 root  wheel   512 Aug 22 18:34 .ssh/

What am I missing? Why can't I add an entry to known_hosts?

Solution 1

Login to your FreeNas Machine and open the Terminal enter:

mount -o rw /

when done enter

mount -o ro /

Solution 2

In current version (9.2.1.8) this is very straight forward to achieve:

1. Log in to the Web GUI.
2. Navigate to Account > Users > View Users
3. Double click on user root.
4. In the open dialog box there is an "SSH Public Key" field. Copy and paste the content of

/root/.ssh/id_rsa.pub

on the Admin node and Save the configuration.

If there is no id_rsa.pub copy the content of

/etc/ssh/ssh_host_rsa_key.pub

instead.

Solution 3

You have to enable "root" login from the FreeNAS GUI if you want to use the "root" user over ssh. (which in the ssh best practice config, is DON'T DO IT). I use my user to ssh in to the FreeNAS and Then "su" up to the root user. Or you can allow your user sudo access.

http://doc.freenas.org/index.php/SSH & http://doc.freenas.org/index.php/Users