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Date:      Mon, 3 Nov 2008 19:29:46 -0700
From:      Andrew Falanga <af300wsm@gmail.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Authentication with SSH using public keys
Message-ID:  <200811031929.46308.af300wsm@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20081101014600.GA37453@chateau.d.lf>
References:  <200810311652.38230.af300wsm@gmail.com> <20081101014600.GA37453@chateau.d.lf>

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>
> >debug1: Authentications that can continue: publickey,keyboard-interactive
> >debug1: Next authentication method: publickey
> >debug1: Trying private key: /home/andy/.ssh/identity
> >debug1: Offering public key: /home/andy/.ssh/id_rsa
> >debug2: we sent a publickey packet, wait for reply
> >debug1: Authentications that can continue: publickey,keyboard-interactive
>
> It seems OpenSSH (on your dad's box) hasn't recognized your private key, so
> how about checking permissions of ~/.ssh/authorized_keys and ~/.ssh on his
> box. Or how about enabling verbose logging on his box, using 'LogLevel'
> parameter in sshd_config.
>
> HTH
> Ashish Shukla


Following onto the e-mail I made before, apparently that little permissions 
difference for the directory, .ssh, was the problem.  Changing it to 644 has, 
apparently, fixed the problem.

Andy



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