Re: ssh: problem with publickey authentication
From: Rogan Dawes (discard_at_dawes.za.net)
Date: 10/26/05
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Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2005 08:11:52 +0200 To: Frans Englich <frans.englich@telia.com>
Frans Englich wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have trouble getting ssh with publickey authentication to work. The server I
> am attenmpting to log in to is not setup by me, but everything indicates that
> 1) my user account exists on the machine(due to public_html page can be
> visited); and 2) that the public key I sent was properly installed. The
> server works fine for other users, and although it is possible the sysadmin
> made a mistake in setting up my account, I think the error is on my side.
> Perhaps someone can give a hint on where the problem is.
>
> Below series of bash commands are perhaps illuminating. I can't tell more than
> that authentication seems to fail.
>
> bash-2.05b$ pwd
> /home/frans
> bash-2.05b$ ls .ssh/ -alFh
> total 21K
> drwxr-xr-x 2 frans users 160 Oct 23 20:26 ./
> drwxrwxrwx 72 frans users 3.6K Oct 23 20:25 ../
^^^^^^
[snip]
Looks to me like the problem may be with the permissions on your home
directory
Group and other should not have write access to your home directory, and
your .ssh directory can be mode 700 (drwx------)
Rogan
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