Re: Vexing issue w/no password, identity file-based authentication

From: BAG (redmiata.geo@yahoo.com)
Date: 02/06/03 

From: redmiata.geo@yahoo.com (BAG)
Date: 6 Feb 2003 11:55:50 -0800

Solved my issue - hope it resolves yours as well. The problem was that
the target user's home directory was group-writeable (775), and it
needed to be 755, as SSH does not allow 775 for the home directory.
Not that it was apparent from the error message... ;)

-B

v_satishkumar@hotmail.com (v_satishkumar@hotmail.com) wrote in message news:<153fc8ea.0302041119.542841a9@posting.google.com>...
> I forgot to include information before I hit send
> on my last post.
>
> SSH: openssh-3.4p1
> OS: scp from: FreeBSD-4.7
> scp to: Linux-2.2.22 (Debian 3.0)
> Perl: 5.8.0 (uses "system" to call scp)
>
> Thanks,
> -Satish

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