On Mon, Nov 03, 2008 at 07:29:46PM -0700, Andrew Falanga wrote:
> 
> >
> > >debug1: Authentications that can continue: publickey,keyboard-interactive
> > >debug1: Next authentication method: publickey
> > >debug1: Trying private key: /home/andy/.ssh/identity
> > >debug1: Offering public key: /home/andy/.ssh/id_rsa
> > >debug2: we sent a publickey packet, wait for reply
> > >debug1: Authentications that can continue: publickey,keyboard-interactive
> >
> > It seems OpenSSH (on your dad's box) hasn't recognized your private key, so
> > how about checking permissions of ~/.ssh/authorized_keys and ~/.ssh on his
> > box. Or how about enabling verbose logging on his box, using 'LogLevel'
> > parameter in sshd_config.
> >
> > HTH
> > Ashish Shukla
> 
> 
> Following onto the e-mail I made before, apparently that little permissions 
> difference for the directory, .ssh, was the problem.  Changing it to 644 has, 
> apparently, fixed the problem.

Which doesn't make sense for two reasons:

1) Directories must have the execute bit set (644 lacks that),
2) ~/.ssh should be 700 for security reasons.

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