Re: baffling ssh problem
On Wed, Sep 19, 2007 at 12:54:57PM -0400, Wayne Topa wrote:
> Douglas A. Tutty(dtutty@porchlight.ca) is reported to have said:
> > On Tue, Sep 18, 2007 at 10:38:50PM -0400, Wayne Topa wrote:
> >
> > > I've been messing with that for 2 weeks. I must not have used a good
> > > enough search phrase on Google.
> > >
> >
> > Just for completeness, you didn't need a google search. The info is
> > somewhere around line 721 in the ssh(1) man page. :))
>
> Not on my boxen Douglas. It ends on line 579. I just read the man
> page, again, and still don't see it. I'm only half way through my
> first cup of coffe so I will go back and read it again after cup 3-4.
> It must be in the AUTHENTICATION section.
Its in the FILES section, where it describes the purposes of each of the
files needed for ssh to run. It describes the permissions required on
each. This is on my Etch amd64 box, standard 80x25 screen.
>
> Another question popped into my head while trying to go to sleep last
> night.
>
> Being that the 775 permission on the server home directory was the
> problem, why was it only the AMD box that didn't work. All 6 linux
> boxes are running uptodate testing. That was why I concentrated on
> the AMD box as being the problem, and not the server. ;-(
Did you perchance scp these directories from another box? If not, how
were they created? Mine are generally created when I run ssh-keygen
which is the first ssh-related thing I do on a box.
Doug.
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