Re: OpenSSH key based authorisation problem

2011-01-18 Thread Adrian Levi
On 19 January 2011 07:35, Rob Owens wrote: > I was going to tell you that .ssh should not be world readable, but I > just tested it and it works fine like that.  (I guess that changed > sometime since I first set up ssh on my machine). > > Can you post the authorized_keys file?  Remember that thos

Re: OpenSSH key based authorisation problem

2011-01-18 Thread Rob Owens
On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 06:06:56AM +1000, Adrian Levi wrote: > On 19 January 2011 02:37, Rob Owens wrote: > > Any time I've ever had trouble with key based authentication, it was > > because of improper permissions on my .ssh folder.  It should be set: > > > > chmod 700 ~/.ssh > > > > I'd double-c

Re: OpenSSH key based authorisation problem

2011-01-18 Thread Adrian Levi
On 19 January 2011 05:06, Rob Owens wrote: > That is the default location for authorized_keys, but it can be changed > in sshd_config with the AuthorizedKeysFile parameter.  Better check and > make sure somebody didn't alter it from the default. 'Somebody' ~me? :) This exact config file works pe

Re: OpenSSH key based authorisation problem

2011-01-18 Thread Adrian Levi
On 19 January 2011 02:37, Rob Owens wrote: > Any time I've ever had trouble with key based authentication, it was > because of improper permissions on my .ssh folder.  It should be set: > > chmod 700 ~/.ssh > > I'd double-check that before going any further. I checked that but didn't spot anythin

Re: OpenSSH key based authorisation problem

2011-01-18 Thread Rob Owens
On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 06:25:44PM +0100, François TOURDE wrote: > Le 14992ième jour après Epoch, > Adrian Levi écrivait: > > > Carolyn is a newly created test account, nothing but "adduser carolyn" > > and "ssh-keygen -b4096" > > My key is 4096 bytes long, it works, default length keys didn't wor

Re: OpenSSH key based authorisation problem

2011-01-18 Thread François TOURDE
Le 14992ième jour après Epoch, Adrian Levi écrivait: > Carolyn is a newly created test account, nothing but "adduser carolyn" > and "ssh-keygen -b4096" > My key is 4096 bytes long, it works, default length keys didn't work > so I thought i'd try the same key length. > > This box is newly updated f

Re: OpenSSH key based authorisation problem

2011-01-18 Thread Rob Owens
On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 09:55:32PM +1000, Adrian Levi wrote: > It seems that users other than me are not able to login to the server. > I use key nased authentication via putty and from other debian boxes > fine but other users from putty (haven't tried other users from linux) > fail with "No more

OpenSSH key based authorisation problem

2011-01-18 Thread Adrian Levi
It seems that users other than me are not able to login to the server. I use key nased authentication via putty and from other debian boxes fine but other users from putty (haven't tried other users from linux) fail with "No more authentication methods available". adrian@jupiter:~$ ssh -v localhos