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Date:      Tue, 20 Aug 2002 10:16:32 -0400
From:      Rob Ellis <rob@web.ca>
To:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Strange SSH publickey behaviour
Message-ID:  <20020820141632.GA23002@web.ca>
In-Reply-To: <20020820150143.J2629-100000@pan.ehsbrann.com>
References:  <20020820133729.GD16083@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi> <20020820150143.J2629-100000@pan.ehsbrann.com>

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have you tried 'ssh -v ...' -- it will usually tell you
what it doesn't like.

- rob

On Tue, Aug 20, 2002 at 03:11:58PM +0100, Byron Schlemmer wrote:
> 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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