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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


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