[TriLUG] Public Key Authentication with SSH

Brian McCullough bdmc at bdmcc-us.com
Thu Jan 26 14:07:03 EST 2006


On Thu, Jan 26, 2006 at 01:53:54PM -0500, Brian Blater (BBList) wrote:
> 
> /var/log/messages file on the remote host and I'm getting the following:
> Authentication refused: bad ownership or modes for directory
> /home/bblater. Checked the perms here and the ~/.ssh directory was set


The way that I read that error message is that it is complaining about
your HOME directory, not ".ssh".


Brian


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