SSH keys broken?

Adam Williamson awilliam at redhat.com
Thu Sep 30 14:33:59 UTC 2010


On Thu, 2010-09-30 at 09:16 -0400, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
> 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

Steven, are they actually prompting for your *login password*, or is it
the passphrase for your ssh key? The two would indicate different
problems.
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