Re: publickey doesn't work - solved

Bernd.Eggink_at_rrz.uni-hamburg.de
Date: 09/29/04

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    Date: 29 Sep 2004 11:54:45 GMT

    Bernd.Eggink@rrz.uni-hamburg.de wrote:
    > I have two systems A and B at home (and several more at the
    > university). Everything works fine, except that for some obscure
    > reasons publickey authentication doesn't work for user root from A to
    > B (both SuSE Linux 9.1). It works for a normal user in both
    > directions, and it works for root from B to A. I triple-checked all of
    > the configuration files, they are identical on both machines.
    > B:/root/.ssh/authorized_keys contains nothing but A:root's public key.

    Found it, at last: It was caused by a group write permission for
    /root/.ssh.

    Bernd 

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