From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 28 22:17:51 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 351601065674 for ; Thu, 28 Oct 2010 22:17:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from asmtpout026.mac.com (asmtpout026.mac.com [17.148.16.101]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D86C8FC1C for ; Thu, 28 Oct 2010 22:17:50 +0000 (UTC) MIME-version: 1.0 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Received: from [17.151.80.120] by asmtp026.mac.com (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 6.3-7.04 (built Sep 26 2008; 64bit)) with ESMTPSA id <0LB000LJHR4UY310@asmtp026.mac.com> for questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 28 Oct 2010 14:17:19 -0700 (PDT) X-Proofpoint-Spam-Details: rule=notspam policy=default score=0 spamscore=0 ipscore=0 suspectscore=0 phishscore=0 bulkscore=0 adultscore=0 classifier=spam adjust=0 reason=mlx engine=6.0.2-1004200000 definitions=main-1010280123 X-Proofpoint-Virus-Version: vendor=fsecure engine=2.50.10432:5.2.15,1.0.148,0.0.0000 definitions=2010-10-28_10:2010-10-28, 2010-10-28, 1970-01-01 signatures=0 From: Chuck Swiger In-reply-to: <20101028193953.GA6922@laptop.piggybox> Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2010 14:17:14 -0700 Message-id: <08B016CA-24FA-41CB-8FE3-D4100B58BB15@mac.com> References: <20101028193953.GA6922@laptop.piggybox> To: Peter Harrison X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1081) Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ssh key authentication problem... 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: Thu, 28 Oct 2010 22:17:51 -0000 Hi-- On Oct 28, 2010, at 12:39 PM, Peter Harrison wrote: > debug1: trying public key file /home/peter/.ssh/authorized_keys > debug1: fd 4 clearing O_NONBLOCK > debug3: secure_filename: checking '/usr/home/peter/.ssh' > debug3: secure_filename: checking '/usr/home/peter' > debug3: secure_filename: terminating check at '/usr/home/peter' > debug2: key not found It's likely that the permissions to the private key are wrong somewhere in the path. Something like "chmod go-w / /usr /usr/home /usr/home/peter /usr/home/peter/.ssh /usr/home/peter/.ssh/id_rsa" is likely to help.... Regards, -- -Chuck