Following the process I've used in other environments, I've tried setting-up shared keys between my Mac and my CentOS 4 webserver. I've seen the same problem with my older Ubuntu 7.10 workstation trying to connect via keys to the same webserver.
I have tried both dsa
and rsa
keytypes (sshkeygen -t <type>
).
The sshd_config
file on my webserver seems to be allowing key-based logins:
RSAAuthentication yes PubkeyAuthentication yes AuthorizedKeysFile .ssh/authorized_keys
And my .ssh/authorized_keys has my dsa
and rsa
keys added.
Where should I be looking for what to change next to make key-based logins "Just Workâ˘"?
Is it related to the line,
#UseDNS yes
and sshd
is trying to do a reverse-lookup on my IP, but cannot because it's NAT'd?
Best Answer
~/.ssh/
permissions should be set0700
, and the contents should be0600
.Also, permissions on
~/
must be 0755 or less; that is, it cannot be writable by any other users.