Re: Public key authentication troubles

From: Darren Tucker (dtucker_at_dodgy.net.au)
Date: 05/22/04


Date: Sat, 22 May 2004 04:38:06 +0000 (UTC)

In article <c8m1ce$m7i$1@news-reader5.wanadoo.fr>,
Nicolas Bertolotti <nbertolo@chez.com> wrote:
>I'm facing troubles while trying to activate connection without a password
>on a specific linux box.
>
>I've generated the keys using ssh-keygen -t rsa1
>I've then copied the public key to authorized_keys : cp .ssh/identity.pub
>.ssh/authorized_keys
>I've also changed the permissions : chmod go-rwx .ssh

Is the home dir group writable?

http://www.openssh.com/faq.html#3.14 and failing that, run the server in
debug mode: http://www.snailbook.com/faq/general-debugging.auto.html

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