At 02:45 PM 1/10/2006, Paul Heinlein wrote: >Further, you must ensure that, on the remote machine into which >you're attempting to login, You just went beyond my Un*x memory stack. I learned this stuff once upon a time, but I forget how to check this out... >a) $HOME is not group-writeable or world-writeable Is this the directory /home/user ? Or some environment variable? >b) $HOME/.ssh has 0700 permissions > >c) $HOME/.ssh/* have 0600 permissions As I said, mine are /ssh2 and how do I check this? >(Actually, there are some $HOME/ssh/* files that can have looser >permissions than 600, but they all work with 0600, so that's the way >I keep them.) ~]$ ls -la total 52 . . . drwxrwxr-x 2 user user 4096 Jan 10 17:01 .ssh2 .ssh2]$ls -l total 8 -rw-r--r-- 1 user user 12 Jan 10 17:01 authorization -rw-r--r-- 1 user user 1252 Jul 8 2005 user.pub