>> -----Original Message----- >> From: redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx >> [mailto:redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Mike Burger >> Sent: Wednesday, September 13, 2006 10:51 AM >> To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list >> Subject: Re: Ssh with public key authentication >> >> >> > I am trying to set up ssh public key authentication between several >> > RHEL machines. I can successfully connect from machine1 (AS4) to >> > other machines (WS4, release 9) using public key ( no password >> > entered). But I have not >> > been able to connect to machine1 using public key. I >> have gone thru >> > the >> > steps several times with no success. Any suggestions on >> what to do or >> > how to get better information than from the -v option ( -vvv is the >> > best I've gotten so far) ? >> >> Have you added the public key for the other systems to the >> .ssh/authorized_keys file on system1? > > I have added the public keys to authorized_keys on machine1. > On all machines: > > chmod 755 ~/.ssh > chmod 600 ~/.ssh/authorized_keys Permissions are too open on the directory. Try, instead, "chmod 700 ~/.ssh" -- 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 http://www.bubbanfriends.org/mailman/listinfo/site-update, or send a message to: site-update-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx with a message of: subscribe -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list