SSH Bash: Required key not available

[drunkenllama]

Hi guys,
When I connect to my Nethunter through SSH from my laptop, (tried both root and kali as user). It seems the SSH bash environment is limited.
with most commands I type in, the SSH terminal returns:
-Bash: /usr/bin/TheCommandIJustTyped Required key not available

I looked everywhere online, not much help available. Can anyone help? Am I the only one with this problem?
Is it to do with the Magisk Rooting process or the SSH Key generation from the server?

Thanks in advance.

[blueorchid]

Hello,
I have the same issue.
Xiaomi Mi 9T - MIUI 11 - Android Ten - nethunter 2020.2

```
blue@John:~$ ssh [email protected]
[email protected]'s password:
-bash: /etc/profile: Required key not available
-bash: /root/.bash_profile: Required key not available
-bash-5.0# id
uid=0(root) gid=0(root) groups=0(root),27(sudo),3003(sockets),3004(inet)
-bash-5.0# pwd
/root
-bash-5.0# ls
-bash: /usr/bin/ls: Required key not available
```

This seems to be the issue of the chroot and ssh's pam.

I once used the Chromebook with Crouton Linux Chroot. When drop into chroot shell, the Downloads folder of Chromebook cannot be written to: same error: "Required key not available".

They have a solution of comment out a line in /etc/pam.d/su-l
```
# session optional pam_keyinit.so force revoke
```
Though this solution hasn't been working for me.

[blueorchid]

While waiting for someone with a fix, I have a work around of ssh into android shell and chroot into kali.
Install openssh via termux
```
apt install openssh
sshd
```
SSH into android user at port 8022. Set up ssh key if wanted.
```
ssh [email protected] -p8022
su root
bootkali
```

Not very secure and conveniently. Though it works.

[drunkenllama]

While waiting for someone with a fix, I have a work around of ssh into android shell and chroot into kali.
Install openssh via termux
```
apt install openssh
sshd
```
SSH into android user at port 8022. Set up ssh key if wanted.
```
ssh [email protected] -p8022
su root
bootkali
```

Not very secure and conveniently. Though it works.


Hi blueorchid, thanks for the suggestions! I've tried both your methods, the first one didn't really have any effect, the 2nd one, I think only works if you've installed NH from Termux. I installed NH chroot manager and magisk, Termux doesn't seem to be able to reach the Kali installation even as root.

[drunkenllama]

Found a solution:
editing the /edc/pam.d/ AND /etc/pam.d/su- files to comment out this line:

# session optional pam_keyinit.so force revoke

It worked for me, but no idea why. Maybe someone can illuminate us :-)

[blueorchid]

Yeah the fix works for me too. I commented out the line "session optional pam_keyinit.so force revoke" in all the files under "/etc/pam.d/":
/etc/pam.d/su-l
/etc/pam.d/login
/etc/pam.d/runuser-l
/etc/pam.d/ssh

[re4son]

That error is caused by an encrypted data partition. Magisk cannot handle user context changes on encrypted data partitions.

Please flash an encryption disabler for your phone and format data.
Reboot and verify in "settings" that your phone is not encrypted.

[chavetasoft]

I?m resolve this in the /etc/pam.d/sshd file whit this config (sorry mi inglish is not very good im uruguayian)

################################################## ##################

# PAM configuration for the Secure Shell service


# Standard Un*x authentication.
@include common-auth


#0 Disallow non-root logins when /etc/nologin exists.
#account required pam_nologin.so


# Uncomment and edit /etc/security/access.conf if you need to set complex
# access limits that are hard to express in sshd_config.
# account required pam_access.so


# Standard Un*x authorization.
@include common-account


# SELinux needs to be the first session rule. This ensures that any
# lingering context has been cleared. Without this it is possible that a
# module could execute code in the wrong domain.
session [success=ok ignore=ignore module_unknown=ignore default=bad] pam_selinux.so close


# Set the loginuid process attribute.
#session required pam_loginuid.so


# Create a new session keyring.
#session required pam_keyinit.so force revoke


# Standard Un*x session setup and teardown.
@include common-session


# Print the message of the day upon successful login.
# This includes a dynamically generated part from /run/motd.dynamic
# and a static (admin-editable) part from /etc/motd.
session optional pam_motd.so motd=/run/motd.dynamic
session optional pam_motd.so noupdate


# Print the status of the user's mailbox upon successful login.
session optional pam_mail.so standard noenv # [1]


# Set up user limits from /etc/security/limits.conf.
#session required pam_limits.so


# Read environment variables from /etc/environment and
# /etc/security/pam_env.conf.
session required pam_env.so # [1]
# In Debian 4.0 (etch), locale-related environment variables were moved to
# /etc/default/locale, so read that as well.
session required pam_env.so user_readenv=1 envfile=/etc/default/locale


# SELinux needs to intervene at login time to ensure that the process starts
# in the proper default security context. Only sessions which are intended
# to run in the user's context should be run after this.
session [success=ok ignore=ignore module_unknown=ignore default=bad] pam_selinux.so open


# Standard Un*x password updating.
@include common-password

[RSE]

How do i even connect to my nethunter phone through ssh.
When i try to connect it asks me for a password.
I tried root:toor but nothing works.

[berbascum]

Hi all,

I've had same problem on a Xiaomi with LineageOS 17.1, in a LinuxDeploy Debian Buster chroot

As re4son said, the problem starts once i encrypted Android data partition.

Thanks to your comments, I've been able to solve the problem commenting the line:

#session optional pam_keyinit.so force revoke

in /etc/pam.d/sshd and /etc.pam.d/su-l files.

After restart chroot environment, write operations from chroot to Android encrypted data partition is working.

Thanks to all.

[lyh543]

Same Problem on Android 12, tome-linux(https://github.com/2moe/tmoe-linux) chroot to Archlinux ARM.


#session optional pam_keyinit.so force revoke

comment this line finally works for me, but this line doesn't exist directly in `/etc/pam.d/sshd` in Archlinux ARM.



[liu@Mi-MIX-2S ~]$ cat /etc/pam.d/sshd
#%PAM-1.0
#auth required pam_securetty.so #disable remote root
auth include system-remote-login
account include system-remote-login
password include system-remote-login
session include system-remote-login




[liu@Mi-MIX-2S ~]$ cat /etc/pam.d/system-remote-login
#%PAM-1.0


auth include system-login
account include system-login
password include system-login
session include system-login




[liu@Mi-MIX-2S ~]$ cat /etc/pam.d/system-login
#%PAM-1.0


auth required pam_shells.so
auth requisite pam_nologin.so
auth include system-auth


account required pam_access.so
account required pam_nologin.so
account include system-auth


password include system-auth


session optional pam_loginuid.so
# COMMENT IT!
# session optional pam_keyinit.so force revoke
session include system-auth
session optional pam_motd.so
session optional pam_mail.so dir=/var/spool/mail standard quiet
-session optional pam_systemd.so
session required pam_env.so user_readenv=1


So be careful to find thie line.