[PLUG] SSH Experts Here?

Rich Shepard rshepard at appl-ecosys.com
Wed Dec 6 03:04:45 UTC 2006


On Tue, 5 Dec 2006, Daniel Johnson wrote:

> I find that usually problems using keys instead of passwords is a
> permissions issue.  If anyone, or any group other than you, or root has
> read or write access to the private key, or to the directory above it, or
> if it has write access to the authorized_keys2 file it won't work.  There
> is usually some kind of helpful message as to why ssh didn't work as
> expected in /var/log/secure, especially if you up the log level.

   Thanks for the pointer, Dan. I'll look into the permissions issue as soon
as I return.

Rich

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