[ale] Two SSH access questions

Jason Day jasonday at worldnet.att.net
Tue Mar 2 15:59:14 EST 2004


On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 10:08:56AM -0500, Michael D. Hirsch wrote:
> On Tuesday 02 March 2004 09:45 am, John Mills wrote:
[snip]
> > The functions I can't seem to use are:
> >  1) RSA authorization so allow direct login with the client user's RSA
> >     key stored in his/her directory, and
[snip]
> Make sure that the private keys and the authorized_keys files all have 600 
> permissions.

Also make sure the ~/.ssh directory on the server has permission 0700.
Otherwise, sshd will (silently!) ignore the authorized_keys2? file.
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