Re: SSH permission problems
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A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said...
>
> I accidentally did a chmod -R on my home directory and messed up the
> permissions in my home directory (/home/ssahmed). Now, I am unable to
> SSH from work into my home system.
>
> Initially, I noticed in the following message in my log files:
>
> sshd[23261]: DSA authentication refused for ssahmed: bad ownership or
> modes for '/home/ssahmed/.ssh/authorized_keys2'.
>
> Then I changed the permission of /home/ssahmed/.ssh/authorized_keys2 to:
>
> -rw------- 1 ssahmed ssahmed 938 Oct 26 18:18 .ssh/authorized_keys2
>
> and now I get the following error message:
>
> sshd[23600]: DSA authentication refused for ssahmed: bad ownership or
> modes for '/home/ssahmed/'.
>
> The permissions on my home directory are:
>
> drwxr-sr-x 20 ssahmed ssahmed 4096 Oct 26 18:02 /home/ssahmed/
>
> and the permissions on my ~/.ssh directory are:
>
> drwx------ 2 ssahmed ssahmed 4096 Oct 26 18:19 .ssh/
>
>
> Can anyone tell me what the correct permissions should be to fix this
> problem ?
Well, I have:
on /home/phil:
drwxr-xr-x 112 phil users 35840 Oct 26 17:30 phil/
and on ~/.ssh:
drwxr-xr-x 2 phil users 1024 Oct 2 00:46 .ssh
on the files in ~/.ssh:
- -rw-r--r-- 1 phil users 2969 Jul 4 13:33 authorized_keys
- -rw------- 1 phil users 524 Apr 5 2000 identity
- -rw-r--r-- 1 phil users 328 Apr 5 2000 identity.pub
- -rw------- 1 phil users 13090 Oct 19 22:23 known_hosts
- -rw------- 1 phil users 512 Mar 26 2000 random_seed
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Phil Brutsche pbrutsch@tux.creighton.edu
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