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[nycphp-talk] [OT] SSH keys: what am I doing wrong?

Christopher Merlo cmerlo441 at gmail.com
Wed Aug 10 00:24:27 EDT 2005


On 8/9/05, David Mintz <dmintz at davidmintz.org> wrote:

> So I started over from scratch with my .ssh directory on interps1, that
> is, I appended my id_rsa.pub (from my desktop) to .ssh/authorized_keys (on
> interps1) and tried again to ssh. Still I get prompted for password.

Make sure the authorized_keys file is readable only by you.  When you
do an "ls -l" on the file, you should see something like this:

-rw-------  1 cmerlo cmerlo 605 2005-08-09 23:04 .ssh/authorized_keys

HTH.
-c

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