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Re: ssh with RSA-key login problem



On Sun, 1 Aug 1999, Fredrik Jonsson wrote:

 : Hi,
 : 
 : I have setup sshd on my Debina system, genrated keys for root and user1 
 : with ssh-keygen and put the public key in the file .ssh/authorized_keys. 
 : I have moved the private keys to my Mac where I run a ssh client 
 : (niftytelnet-1.1-ssh-r3). 
 : 
 : root login works without a problem but when I try to login as user1 my 
 : ssh client complains that "Server does not allow RSA authentication, or 
 : the public key for user "user1" was not accepted. Reverting to password 
 : authentication.
 : 
 : What is wrong?
 : 
 : Debian:/home/user1/.ssh# ls -la
 : total 6
 : drwxr-sr-x   2 user1     user1         1024 Aug  1 15:33 .
 : drwxrwsr-x  10 user1     user1         1024 Aug  1 15:31 ..
 : -rw-rw-r--   1 user1     user1          327 Aug  1 15:33 authorized_keys
 : -rw-------   1 user1     user1          523 Aug  1 15:32 identity
 : -rw-rw-r--   1 user1     user1          327 Aug  1 15:32 identity.pub
 : -rw-------   1 user1     user1          512 Aug  1 15:31 random_seed

.ssh/authorized_keys is group writable, and that tends to freak out SSH.

`cd; chmod -R g-w .ssh/*' should help.

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