-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 If you're initially logging in as a normal user, your public key needs to be in that user's home directory, and not in root's home directory. Greg On Sat, Jun 05, 2004 at 04:30:56PM -0400, Igor Gueths wrote: > Hi all. I'm attempting to set up public key authentcation, however I think I am missing something. I generated the keypair by running ssh-keygen -b 2048 -t dsa. I then wrote the resulting > identity.pub file to /root/.ssh/authorized_keys, which is where I am storing the file so no other users can play with it. I then restarted sshd, and tried connecting to localhost under my user > account to see if it would properly authenticate. I got as far as the prompt for the passphrase of the private key. Once I entered that, I got a "permission denied message." I did make sure I > was entering the correct passphrase. Should I perhaps regenerate the keys, or am I forgetting something? Thanks! > -- > Failure is not an option, it comes bundled with your Microsoft product. > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > !DSPAM:40c22ddc327091545416499! > > - -- Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager at EU.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAwi7a7s9z/XlyUyARApzlAJ9OZ0oKk61LwQFmMgi4mF7agy0kjgCgxx+X JXXTB+z1DxA9O9iydPYv4OI= =PfpU -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
