Tom Spec <samag70-ignore@xxxxxxxx> writes: > The .ssh directory MUST be drwx------ user user and the > authorized_keys file MUST be -rw-------. I don't believe sshd requires non-readable for either ~/.ssh or ~/.ssh/authorized_keys. 755 and 644 should be good enough. $ ll -d ~/.ssh ~/.ssh/authorized_keys 2 drwxr-xr-x 7 wolfgang wsrcc 512B May 23 08:53 /home/wolfgang/.ssh/ 4 -rw-r--r-- 1 wolfgang wsrcc 2.8K Mar 25 11:59 /home/wolfgang/.ssh/authorized_keys -wolfgang -- Wolfgang S. Rupprecht http://www.wsrcc.com/wolfgang/