RE: public key (RSA) authentication problem

Anytime I've had problems logging in with swapped public keys, the following ownership changes have fixed it 99% of the time: (entered from the user's home directory. e.g. cd /home/username )

chmod 755 . .ssh .ssh/authorized_keys

Give that a try.

John

-----Original Message-----
From: Greg Wooledge [mailto:wooledg@eeg.ccf.org] Sent: Wednesday, August 13, 2003 10:47 AM To: Ben Green
Cc: secureshell@securityfocus.com
Subject: Re: public key (RSA) authentication problem

On Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 09:12:17PM -0400, Ben Green wrote:
> As root, I can setup public key authentication and scp/sftp/ssh between two

Check the directory permissions, too -- on every directory leading up to, and including, the .ssh directory. If any of them is either groupor  world-writable, then it will not work. Received on Thu Aug 14 13:04:35 2003