On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 11:20:51AM -0700, Zack Payton wrote: > What are the permissions on your home directory for the user that is failing. > Also what are the permissions for ~/.ssh/ of the user that is failing? > > If either of these are set to +r or +w, ssh will skip public key and > go to password authentication. Actually, world-readable is fine. It's just group- or world-WRITABLE that gives the problem.