On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 5:58 PM, xSAPPYx <xsap...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 10:06, Jerrin <slackma...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > On a mac system i generated the key using ssh-keygen -t dsa and copied > > .ssh/id_dsa.pub to /home/user/.ssh/authorized_keys on a Freebsd server, > but > > it prompts for the password > > Check perms on /home/user/.ssh/authorized_keys > chmod 640 or 600, not 644 > > If that doesn't work, try to ssh with a -v or -vv, that might give you > more of a clue > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" >
That's the permissions of my authorized_keys, I believe that's 0600, some systems require a much more restrictive 0400 octal. -rwxr--r-- 1 chris chris 622B Jun 28 21:36 authorized_keys Did you know... If you play a Windows 2000 CD backwards, you hear satanic messages, but what's worse is when you play it forward.... ...it installs Windows 2000 -- Alfred Perlstein on chat at freebsd.org <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions> _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"