Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2002 15:11:58 +0100 (BST) From: Byron Schlemmer <me@byron.me.uk> To: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> Cc: FreeBSD-Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Strange SSH publickey behaviour Message-ID: <20020820150143.J2629-100000@pan.ehsbrann.com> In-Reply-To: <20020820133729.GD16083@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi>
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On Tue, 20 Aug 2002, Matthew Seaman wrote: > Check the permissions of your home directory, the ~/.ssh directory and > all the files within it on the troublesome machine. Strip off any > group or world write permissions. Also, if your home dir on that box > is NFS mounted without root access, make sure that the world can read > any files containing *public* key data. > > OpenSSH will ignore an authorized_keys file if it perceives that > someone other than the file's owner or root can modify it, which > includes playing tricks moving directories around higher up the > directory heirarchy. Thanks Matthew but none of the above apply. :) By this I mean my .ssh dir is 700 and the authorized_keys2 is set to 600. And as far as I know that is correct? User and group is set to me. Still looking around. It's driving me nuts. - byron To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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