SSH Public Key Authentication Isn't Working
Christopher K. Johnson
ckjohnson at gwi.net
Thu Nov 13 04:12:45 UTC 2003
FearOfCarpet wrote:
> I did a fresh install of Yarrow, but copied a lot of config files
> (like samba and my firewall scripts) including most of my /home
> partition from a RH9 install. I made new public/private key pairs,
> created my new ~/.ssh/authorized_keys file, and eventually copied my
> /etc/ssh/sshd_conf file from RH9... Everyone is set up to use
> ssh-agent and public key authentication, but the Fedora computer
> refuses to do so. No matter what I do it always prompts me for a
> password. Is there something about Fedora that would prevent this, or
> should this question be directed at an Open-SSH forum?
>
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Try ssh with -v argument, or -vv to get an idea where it is failing.
Could be that your .ssh directory or authorized_keys file have
incorrect mode. They should be 700 and 644 respectively.
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