Re: Permission denied (publickey) Problem.

From: Andrew McCall (it.andrew.mccall@oldham.gov.uk)
Date: 03/28/02 

From: it.andrew.mccall@oldham.gov.uk (Andrew McCall)
Date: 28 Mar 2002 07:35:34 -0800

slade@shore.net (Richard E. Silverman) wrote in message news:<m1lr8m57ybg.fsf@syrinx.oankali.net>...
> The complaint is about your home directory, which is group-writable --
> sshd insists that it be owned by root or the target account and writable
> only by the owner, unless you set "strictmodes no".

Thanks a lot, that did the trick.

I checked the permissions on my home dir, and they were way out.

I haven't a clue how this happened, but the important thing is that
its fixed now.... I think it might be time to check my tripwire logs
just in case :)

Thanks again

Andrew McCall

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