Re: Help! Public key stopped working w/putty
From: Al Cohen (amc79@cornell.no.junk.please.edu)Date: 05/17/02
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From: "Al Cohen" <amc79@cornell.no.junk.please.edu> Date: Thu, 16 May 2002 20:23:11 -0400
We finally solved the problem ourselves -- my home directory gave the
outside world *too much* access. We clamped down on the permissions, (set
home directory permissions to 700), and SSH became happy.
Go figure.
Al
"Al Cohen" <amc79@cornell.nojunkpleasedotedu> wrote in message
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> I'm using Win XP and a Win 2k machines to access a CVS repository which
> resides on a Redhat 7.2 Linux box.
>
> On the client side, I'm using WinCVS and Putty (putty/pageant/plink) to
SSH
> to the Linux box (running OpenSSH server). WinCVS cannot tolerate
> passwords, so this must be done through a public key arrangement.
>
> All was working fantastically until a few days ago. All of the sudden
> (perhaps after a nasty reboot of the server), Putty insists on asking me
for
> a password, apparently ignoring my key setup. I'd changed nothing (to my
> knowledge!) in Putty when things broke. I even tried deleting the
> authorized_keys file in my ~/.ssh directory, generating a new key pair,
and
> replacing the authorized_keys file with my new public key. But Putty
seems
> to be ignoring it, always asking for a password, no complaints about bad
> keys or anything.
>
> This is happening to me on three different clients. Interestingly, the
> fellow who I'm working with is using WinCVS/Putty to access the same
server
> from different client computers, and he's still fine!
>
> I'm baffled. Any insight would be appreciated!
>
> Thanks,
>
> Al Cohen
>
>
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