ssh authentication error

[Chris Brennan]

On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 5:58 PM, xSAPPYx <xsappyx at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 10:06, Jerrin <slackmails at 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
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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

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