On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 10:16:12AM -0800, Andrew DeFaria wrote: > On 11/20/2012 9:46 AM, anulav2 wrote: > Permissons on .ssh are 700 > >and .ssh/authorized_keys are 600. > >I have tried uninstall and re-install twice. > >and following is part of what i get when i increase verbosity. > Is your home directory, oddly named /home/pal.rsync, set to 755? How > about ~/.ssh? Also 755. No. 700. That may be the problem. My > ~/.ssh/authorized_keys is set to 644. My ~/.ssh/id_rsa is 600 but > ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub is 644.
I think it is advisable to chmod go= -R the whole ~/.ssh directory and also enable the StrictModes directive in sshd_config, amongst several other good practices WRT to sshd. Permissions of your $HOME directory are also relevant. -- Primary key fingerprint: AD8F BDC0 5A2C FD5F A179 60E7 F79B AB04 5299 EC56
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