On 13 March 2011 02:28, Adrian Levi <adrian.l...@gmail.com> wrote: > On the server to get key based auth working you must: > 1)Have the correct permissions on .ssh/*
Permissions on all ~/.ssh are fine and correct at 0644 > 2) have your public key in authorized_keys Both authorized_keys on the server and client have been deleted. without anyting in the ~ ssh directorys it allows login via password. As soon as key-gen -t rsa is performed on the client, the server disallows login, unless ssh -o PreferredAuthentications=password -l user server_address is used. Is there another file the server may of stored the key in, which I'm unaware of? > > On the client you need to have your key decripted for use either by: > 1) using agent > 2) having an empty password string in your private key. Empty password in the actual keyfile. > 3) correct .ssh/* permissions. > > How many keys are in your server authorized_keys file? can you trim it > down to just one for testing? Its empty. (~/.ssh) > What sort of changes have you made to the default sshd.conf file on > the server and ssh.conf file on the client. None, apart from diasallow root logins. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/AANLkTi=moe5l2az5b+86frme3e3-ovl48j8a3dshn...@mail.gmail.com
