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RE: SSH and Remote Key authentication
- From: "Norman Vine" <nhv at cape dot com>
- To: "Cygwin List" <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2004 15:43:00 -0500
- Subject: RE: SSH and Remote Key authentication
- Reply-to: <nhv at cape dot com>
Larry Hall writes:
>
> At 03:25 PM 2/15/2004, Norman Vine you wrote:
> >Hi all
> >
> >I am trying to use SSH remote key authentication
> >It appears as if the remote $HOST does not like
> >the permissions on my home dir
> >
> >Any guidance appreciated
> >
> >$ cd ~
> >
> >$ ls -ld
> >drwxr-xr-x+ 21 $USER None 32768 Feb 13 06:29 .
> >
> >$ ls -ld .ssh
> >drwx------+ 3 $USER None 4096 Feb 12 13:49 .ssh
> >
> >$ ssh -v $USER@$HOST
> >debug1: Remote: Authentication refused: bad ownership or modes for directory /home/$USER
> > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> >
>
> Sounds like a simple permissions problem on ~/.ssh/identity. Your best
> bet is to read up on openssh docs so that you're sure you get everything
> configured correctly
AFAICT I have the correct permissions on ~/.ssh/identity
and the permissions on the $HOST files are identical to
those that admin@$HOST uses to connect from a remote Linux machine
$ cd ~
$ ls -la .ssh/identity
-rw------- 1 $USER None 525 Feb 12 14:51 .ssh/identity
Thanks
Norman
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