“Connection closed by [HOST IP]” using dsa key authentication

Question

I have a shared /home setup using Perceus Cluster Software (http://perceus.org) for our Cluster. Nodes are using CentOS 6.1 x86_64. /home is shared from the head to the nodes b

Answer 1

In my case, I haven not created the user using useradd, instead i have added the user in /etc/passwd file and created the home directory for the user with all required files.

After using useradd to create the user and adding the pub key to the authorized_keys file after creating .ssh directory in the home directory of the user, the issue got resolved.

By the way I am using centos 7

Hope this helps some one.