At 02:29 PM 1/10/2006, =?ISO-8859-2?Q?Maciej_=AFenczykowski?= wrote: >the server file /home/username/.ssh/authorized_keys >must contain a line containing /home/username/.ssh/id_dsa.pub (use >ssh-keygen -t dsa to generate it) hmmm. First the directory on my system is /home/<user>/.ssh2 There I have two files: authorization <user>.pub and authorization contains one line: key <user>.pub >Furthermore /etc/ssh/sshd_config must not have >PubkeyAuthentication no (yes is the default) [if you delete it >remember to /etc/init.d/sshd restart] I saw a line of #PubkeyAuthentication yes which I uncommented and restarted. No difference, so I suspect you are right about yes being the default... ah, I just found the following: # The strategy used for options in the default sshd_config shipped with # OpenSSH is to specify options with their default value where # possible, but leave them commented. Uncommented options change a # default value. :) and what do I do with the section that says: # For this to work you will also need host keys in /etc/ssh/ssh_known_hosts #RhostsRSAAuthentication no # similar for protocol version 2 #HostbasedAuthentication no # Change to yes if you don't trust ~/.ssh/known_hosts for # RhostsRSAAuthentication and HostbasedAuthentication #IgnoreUserKnownHosts no # Don't read the user's ~/.rhosts and ~/.shosts files #IgnoreRhosts yes thanks