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  3. September 2014

sshd public key authentication error: bad ownership or modes

Folks:

I'm trying to get public key authentication working with SSH on my 6.1 system.

I generated a public / private key pair, and copied them to the appropriate locations.

For some reason I'm unable to connect to the server.

I shut down the SSHD server and ran it interactively with the debug parameter in qshell, and I see this error:

debug1: trying public key file /home/SECDMG/.ssh/authorized_keys
Authentication refused: bad ownership or modes for file /home/SECDMG

Any idea why it would be complaining about the ownership of modes for my home directory?

My home directory has "drwxrwsr-x" permissions and the .ssh directory has "drwxr-S---".

Thanks!

david


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