Re: OpenSSH key based authorisation problem

[Adrian Levi <adrian.levi@gmail.com>]

On 19 January 2011 02:37, Rob Owens <rowens@ptd.net> wrote:
> Any time I've ever had trouble with key based authentication, it was
> because of improper permissions on my .ssh folder.  It should be set:
>
> chmod 700 ~/.ssh
>
> I'd double-check that before going any further.

I checked that but didn't spot anything wrong with it compared to my
.ssh folder.
carolyn@jupiter:~$ ls -la .ssh/
total 24
drwx------ 2 carolyn carolyn 4096 Jan 19 06:06 .
drwxr-xr-x 4 carolyn carolyn 4096 Jan 18 21:57 ..
-rw------- 1 carolyn carolyn  397 Jan 19 06:07 authorized_keys
-rw------- 1 carolyn carolyn 1679 Jan 18 21:26 id_rsa
-rw-r--r-- 1 carolyn carolyn  397 Jan 18 21:26 id_rsa.pub
-rw-r--r-- 1 carolyn carolyn  442 Jan 18 21:54 known_hosts
carolyn@jupiter:~$

adrian@jupiter:~$ ls -la .ssh/
total 24
drwx------  2 adrian adrian 4096 Aug  6 09:29 .
drwxr-xr-x 15 adrian adrian 4096 Jan 18 20:48 ..
-rw-------  1 adrian adrian 1140 Aug 11 11:00 authorized_keys
-rw-------  1 adrian adrian 3243 Aug 11 10:46 id_rsa
-rw-r--r--  1 adrian adrian  739 Aug 11 10:46 id_rsa.pub
-rw-r--r--  1 adrian adrian 2830 Jan 18 19:20 known_hosts
adrian@jupiter:~$


Adrian

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