Re: bad modes for authorized_keys

[R P Herrold]

On Wed, 19 Jan 2000, Slade Edmonds wrote:

> Hi I am not able to authenticate via RSA on one of my BSDI 4.1 machines
> running ssh 1.2.27.  The error I get in the log is:
> 
> sshd1[18718]: log: Rsa authentication refused for slade: bad modes for
> /usr/home/slade/.ssh/authorized_keys
> 
> It does let me authenticate via password.  Does anyone have any suggestions?
    
   chmod og-rwx /usr/home/slade/.ssh/authorized_keys

on the relevant host.