> On Saturday 23 February 2008 03:27:01 pm Mike Burger wrote: > >> > Thanks very much. >> > >> > On looking at /var/log/secure on machine B I read: >> > ----------------------------- >> > Feb 23 12:47:19 blanche sshd[18050]: Authentication refused: bad >> > ownership or modes for file /home/tim/.ssh/authorized_keys >> > Feb 23 12:47:22 blanche sshd[18050]: Accepted password for tim from >> > 192.168.2.1 port 41431 ssh2 >> > ----------------------------- >> > >> > When I looked at .ssh/authorized_keys I saw that it had mode 664 >> > (ie with group write permission). >> > After changing this to mode 644, I am able to login without password. >> >> Usually, permissions of 600 or 700 will do...644 makes the file world >> readable, and that's not necessarily a good thing...however, it looks >> like >> you're back where you need to be. >> >> Out of curiosity, what were the permissions on the file before you ran >> th >> chmod command? > > As I mentioned, the mode was 664, > ie the error was to have group write permission. So you did...that'll teach me to read next time, eh? -- Mike Burger http://www.bubbanfriends.org Visit the Dog Pound II BBS telnet://dogpound2.citadel.org or http://dogpound2.citadel.org To be notified of updates to the web site, visit: https://www.bubbanfriends.org/mailman/listinfo/site-update or send a blank email message to: site-update-subscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
