Re: ssh2 public key authorization

[Steven Pritchard <steve@silug.org>]

On Thu, Dec 20, 2001 at 04:05:40PM -0600, charles@lunarmedia.net wrote:
> i've removed the .ssh dir on both the local and remote machines and
> recreated my key files. even after i scp the pub key to the remote
> machine and catted it into the authorized_keys2 file, i'm still
> prompted for a password.

Make sure ~ is mode 755 or less, ~/.ssh is mode 700, and the files are
mode 600 on each machine.

> i'm just looking for a way to see what is really going on or if any errors 
> are being seen.

"tail -f /var/log/messages" and use "ssh -v".

Steve
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