[TriLUG] Public Key Authentication with SSH

[Brian Blater (BBList)]

>>> bdmc at bdmcc-us.com 01/26/06 2:07 pm >>> 
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".

You are correct. I was not aware that sshd would look back to HOME
directory for permissions. I now have to look at the scripting to make
sure I can do what we need with the group perms being set to read-only.

Thanks for everyone's help, I've learned something new again. 

Brian