Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Reply-To: From: "Norman Vine" To: "Cygwin List" Subject: RE: SSH and Remote Key authentication Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2004 15:43:00 -0500 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In-Reply-To: <6.0.1.1.0.20040215152819.0393e388@127.0.0.1> X-Virus-Scanned: Cape.Com VirusScan, no known virus found X-IsSubscribed: yes Note-from-DJ: This may be spam Larry Hall writes: > > At 03:25 PM 2/15/2004, Norman Vine you wrote: > >Hi all > > > >I am trying to use SSH remote key authentication > >It appears as if the remote $HOST does not like > >the permissions on my home dir > > > >Any guidance appreciated > > > >$ cd ~ > > > >$ ls -ld > >drwxr-xr-x+ 21 $USER None 32768 Feb 13 06:29 . > > > >$ ls -ld .ssh > >drwx------+ 3 $USER None 4096 Feb 12 13:49 .ssh > > > >$ ssh -v $USER@$HOST > >debug1: Remote: Authentication refused: bad ownership or modes for directory /home/$USER > > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > > > > Sounds like a simple permissions problem on ~/.ssh/identity. Your best > bet is to read up on openssh docs so that you're sure you get everything > configured correctly AFAICT I have the correct permissions on ~/.ssh/identity and the permissions on the $HOST files are identical to those that admin@$HOST uses to connect from a remote Linux machine $ cd ~ $ ls -la .ssh/identity -rw------- 1 $USER None 525 Feb 12 14:51 .ssh/identity Thanks Norman -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/