On 07/13/2010 11:16 AM, David Highley wrote: > New install of Fedora 13 we get the following /var/log/secure entry when > we ssh from a Fedora 12 system to the Fedora 13 system: > Authentication refused: bad ownership or modes for file /home/dhighley/.ssh/authorized_keys Post the permissions for all entries in the path: ls -ld / /home /home/dhighley /home/dhighley/.ssh \ /home/dhighley/.ssh/authorized_keys For instance: [gordon@herald:~]$ ls -ld / /home /home/gordon /home/gordon/.ssh /home/gordon/.ssh/authorized_keys dr-xr-xr-x. 25 root root 4096 Jul 14 09:25 // drwxr-xr-x. 13 root root 4096 Jan 26 13:41 /home/ drwxr-xr-x. 96 gordon gordon 4096 Jul 15 08:26 /home/gordon/ drwx------. 2 gordon gordon 4096 Jun 18 15:25 /home/gordon/.ssh/ -rw-r--r--. 1 gordon gordon 1226 Aug 21 2008 /home/gordon/.ssh/authorized_keys As far as I know, the rule is that group and others must not have write access to any item in the path. The home directory, .ssh, and authorized_keys files must all be owned by the user logging in. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines