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Re: decoding sshd failure
At 08:27 AM 6/4/2004, you wrote:
>On Friday 04 June 2004 07:40, Andy Rushton wrote:
>> Someone wrote:
>> >>>Below is a fragment of output from sshd -d -d -d
>> >>>
>> >>>Can someone tell me why it doesn't like my publickey? I think I've done
>> >>>everything right, but no joy. I can login using the password just fine.
>>
>> Sorry, I missed the start of this thread so I don't know who the
>> original author is but I have some suggestions:
>>
>> I had a problem with ssh not finding my .ssh directory. It turned out
>> that ssh gets your home directory from /etc/passwd and not from $HOME
>> and in my case, for perverse Windows-related reasons I don't understand,
>> this was different. Editing /etc/passwd fixed it. Check the path that
>> ssh is reporting that its looking in and check that this is the right
>> place.
>>
>
>/home/dcorbin, which is what I expected.
>
>> Also, I had an embarrassing error the first time I set this up - being
>> British I spelt authorized_keys with an 's' not a 'z'. It took me a
>> while to spot the problem.
>>
>> You don't say what your directory structure is, so could one of these be
>> the problem?
>
>The directory structure, as near as I can tell, is "normal". Permission seem
>'reasonable' (and I seem to remember sshd will tell you when your permissions
>are wrong).
Depends. Depends on what 'StrictModes' is set to in your /etc/sshd_config?
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