ssh key authentication problem...

[Peter Harrison]

On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 02:17:14PM -0700, Chuck Swiger wrote:
> Hi--
> 
> On Oct 28, 2010, at 12:39 PM, Peter Harrison wrote:
> > debug1: trying public key file /home/peter/.ssh/authorized_keys
> > debug1: fd 4 clearing O_NONBLOCK
> > debug3: secure_filename: checking '/usr/home/peter/.ssh'
> > debug3: secure_filename: checking '/usr/home/peter'
> > debug3: secure_filename: terminating check at '/usr/home/peter'
> > debug2: key not found
> 
> It's likely that the permissions to the private key are wrong somewhere in the path.  Something like "chmod go-w / /usr /usr/home /usr/home/peter /usr/home/peter/.ssh /usr/home/peter/.ssh/id_rsa" is likely to help....
> 
> Regards,
> -- 
> -Chuck
> 

You were right that there was a permissions problem in there too. It's sorted now, thanks for the assist.



Peter Harrison.