Date: Tue, 02 May 2000 22:29:59 -0700 From: Doug Barton <DougB@gorean.org> To: Noor Dawod <noor@comrax.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: OpenSSH and FreeBSD Message-ID: <390FB957.5AAF11A9@gorean.org> References: <AJEKICLEDNDCBKDJGHGFKELOCHAA.noor@comrax.com>
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Noor Dawod wrote:
>
> Hello
>
> I installed OpenSSH 1.2.3 that comes with 4.0-STABLE. Then I used ssh-keygen
> to generate private/public key pairs to use to log on to one of our server.
>
> I placed the identity.pub file in authorized_keys file on the remote
> machine, and the identity file I put it on the local machine in
> ~/.ssh/identity
>
> I also modified the /etc/ssh_config and /etc/sshd_config on both machines to
> accept password-less RSA authentication based on key pairs.
>
> but it's not working! I used ssh-1.2.27 before, and it worked fine...
>
> What am I doing wrong, maybe one of the config files does not include the
> right permissions to use this type of authentication?
I had a similar problem. It went away when I set my home directory to
750, and ~/.ssh to 700.
HTH,
Doug
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