On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 06:25:44PM +0100, François TOURDE wrote: > Le 14992ième jour après Epoch, > Adrian Levi écrivait: > > > Carolyn is a newly created test account, nothing but "adduser carolyn" > > and "ssh-keygen -b4096" > > My key is 4096 bytes long, it works, default length keys didn't work > > so I thought i'd try the same key length. > > > > This box is newly updated from lenny to testing, although the package > > versions are identical (Version: 1:5.5p1-6) with another Squeeze box > > that works perfectly. > > > > I discovered this problem while trying to set up a sftp account for a > > Website designer, My accound can sftp perfectly. > > > > I can't think on what else to provide at the moment. > > Did you put the public key on the correct .ssh/authorised_keys ? The new > user (carolyn) must have his/her own ~/.ssh/authorized_keys, or you must > try "ssh -v adrian@localhost" if you put the key on adrian's home. > That is the default location for authorized_keys, but it can be changed in sshd_config with the AuthorizedKeysFile parameter. Better check and make sure somebody didn't alter it from the default.
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