SSH keys broken?

Stephen John Smoogen smooge at gmail.com
Thu Sep 30 13:16:19 UTC 2010


On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 00:17, Steven Haigh <netwiz at crc.id.au> wrote:
> In the last couple of days I've noticed that any host that I usually
> connect to via SSH with a shared key authentication still prompts me for
> a password.

1) Are permissions ok? Home directory needs to be 755 and .ssh needs
to be 700. Second check to see if something changed the attrs on the
directories or files

lsattr .ssh
ls -Z .ssh


> Has anyone else noticed this? I don't see anything related in
> /var/log/messages or similar that gives me much of a clue on what is
> going on...
>
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