Ron Herardian said: [snip] > then you might want to > copy id_dsa.pub (default file name) to authorized_keys2. According to the man page: "$HOME/.ssh/authorized_keys is the default file that lists the public keys that are permitted for RSA authentication in protocol version 1 and for public key authentication (PubkeyAuthentication) in protocol version 2." authorized_keys2 isn't needed (and hasn't been for a while now). -- William Hooper