From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Nov 12 23:26:06 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B00171065672 for ; Fri, 12 Nov 2010 23:26:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from xaero@xaerolimit.net) Received: from mail-ew0-f54.google.com (mail-ew0-f54.google.com [209.85.215.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 499978FC13 for ; Fri, 12 Nov 2010 23:26:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ewy3 with SMTP id 3so678584ewy.13 for ; Fri, 12 Nov 2010 15:26:04 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.213.28.205 with SMTP id n13mr3609181ebc.5.1289604364032; Fri, 12 Nov 2010 15:26:04 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.213.10.65 with HTTP; Fri, 12 Nov 2010 15:25:43 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: From: Chris Brennan Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2010 18:25:43 -0500 Message-ID: To: xSAPPYx Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Jerrin Subject: Re: ssh authentication error X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2010 23:26:06 -0000 On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 5:58 PM, xSAPPYx wrote: > On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 10:06, Jerrin wrote: > > Hi, > > > > On a mac system i generated the key using ssh-keygen -t dsa and copied > > .ssh/id_dsa.pub to /home/user/.ssh/authorized_keys on a Freebsd server, > but > > it prompts for the password > > Check perms on /home/user/.ssh/authorized_keys > chmod 640 or 600, not 644 > > If that doesn't work, try to ssh with a -v or -vv, that might give you > more of a clue > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > That's the permissions of my authorized_keys, I believe that's 0600, some systems require a much more restrictive 0400 octal. -rwxr--r-- 1 chris chris 622B Jun 28 21:36 authorized_keys Did you know... If you play a Windows 2000 CD backwards, you hear satanic messages, but what's worse is when you play it forward.... ...it installs Windows 2000 -- Alfred Perlstein on chat at freebsd.org