SSH Not Accepting Public Key

I've just had a case where SELinux prevented sshd from reading the /root/.ssh/authorized_keys file. /var/log/messages will show you that the sshd process was denied access for read operation on the authorized_keys file.

After I ran restorecon -v /root/.ssh/authorized_keys, SSH with the public-key worked fine.

Changing StrictModes to "no" in /etc/ssh/sshd_config worked for me.

sysadmin@suselinux1:~> con sysadmin kaiser
Welcome to Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS (GNU/Linux 3.2.0-25-generic i686)

 * Documentation:  https://help.ubuntu.com/

Last login: Fri Nov  9 15:40:11 2012 from 10.1.3.25
sysadmin@kaiser:~$ date
vie nov  9 17:53:11 CST 2012
sysadmin@kaiser:~$