On 20120206_132412, Bob Proulx wrote: > Paul E Condon wrote: > > "debug1: Roaming not allowed by server" > > > > Then the process switches over to asking for a password, which I > > am trying to avoid. > > On the server look in /var/log/auth.log and look at the messages ------------------------^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
This is much more informative than option -v on the ssh command. The problem was bad ownership of the directory /root/.ssh/ , not bad ownership of any of its content. As always bone head error. Thanks for shaking me out of my rut. > logged there from the sshd. Do you see something such as: > > Authentication refused: bad ownership or modes for file > /home/pecondon/.ssh/authorized_keys > > At the least hopefully there will be some useful message there. > > I often will start up a debugging sshd and connect to it so that all of > the messages will be in the foreground. > > Bob -- Paul E Condon [email protected] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
