Re: trying to use keys...been asked a bunch, didn't find many solutio ns

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Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2003 10:28:49 -0700
To: Gabriel Mino <gmino@pcsltd.com>

> debug3: Not a RSA1 key file /usr/local/etc/ssh_host_rsa_key.

This isn't good.

> Disabling protocol version 1. Could not load host key

This is probably OK, if you don't need protocol 1.

> debug3: secure_filename: checking '/.ssh'
> debug3: secure_filename: checking '/'
> Authentication refused: bad ownership or modes for directory /

Root's home dir is '/', and '/' is writeable by someone aside
from root. This is bad - you probably have group write perms
on '/', or worse yet you have other write perms on '/'. Fix
this for the health of ssh and your system in general.

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