I have been having a real bad time with OpenSSH. I am
trying to get it to authenticate using the
public/private authentication scheme.
First let me describe both of my testbed environments.
The first is an Ultra5 running Solaris 8. 512M Ram.
It is our developer server so it runs a wide range of
software, but mostly web servers. No special
configuration has been done on the box, just pain old
Solaris. OpenSSH 2.9p2
The machine I am using for the client in this
situation is a Windows 2000 laptop. I have used both
openSSH that installs with Cygwin, as well as Tera
Term with ttssh.
The second testbed that I am using is two Solaris
Intel machines. The server is a Celeron 333, and the
client is a PII 450. Both have 128MB ram, and run the
Solaris 8 operating system.
Both of these environments behave the same way.
I can log in with username and password in the normal
way. However, when I follow the instructions on how
to use ssh-keygen to create a public/private key
combination to automate the login process, the process
goes exactly as documented until I try to use it, it
asks me for the password anyway. When I turn on the
-V option, it simply tells me:
debug1: Remote: RSA authentication refused for user:
bad ownership or modes for
'/home/user/.ssh/authorized_keys'.
debug1: Server refused our key.
debug1: Doing password authentication.
$ls -ld .ssh
drwxrwxr-x 2 user grp 512 Jul 29 14:02 .ssh
$> cd .ssh
$> ls -l
-rw-rw-r-- 1 user grp 339 Jul 29 14:02
authorized_keys
-rw-r--r-- 1 user grp 339 Jul 29 14:02 identity.pub
-rw------- 1 user grp 1024 Jul 23 10:28 prng_seed
$>
The real fun part of all of this is, the two Solaris
intel machine platform even share the same home
directory. So, when I write to one ~/.ssh it is the
same ~/.ssh on the other machine via the magic of NFS.
I need this functionality to work to be able to give
remote access to our CVS shares on the Ultra 5.
Anyone with any ideas, please help.
Kevin Fries
Web Developer
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