[NTLUG:Discuss] SSH RSA

[Christopher Cox]

Permissions are VERY important to ssh.. that means things needs to be secure.

Home dir above .ssh needs to be writable ONLY by the owner 755 (or better)
.ssh needs to be 700 and files inside should be 600

Maybe that's the issue.

On 03/02/2013 07:01 PM, Greg Edwards wrote:
> Oops, didn't think to check the log, my bad!!
>
> remote .ssh/authorized_keys is rw-r--r--, local .ssh/id_rsa is r------
>
> IIRC, ssh runs as root so permissions shouldn't be an issue?
>
> Telnet is open on the VM and I get access denied on rcp too.  Could SELinux be
> blocking me?  I haven't looked at that yet either.
>
> Greg Edwards
> http://www.edwards-tx.us
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> Eric Schnoebelen wrote:
>>
>> Greg Edwards writes:
>> - I'm trying to setup an SSH tunnel from an RHEL server to a VM RHEL
>> - instance.  I can SSH and scp to the VM but I can't get the VM to auto
>> - login even though I've put a public key in the authorized_keys file.
>> -
>> - Any ideas?
>>
>> What do the logs say?  I think the interesting log on a
>> RHEL/CentOS system (at least for 5.x) is /var/log/secure.
>>
>> Absent anything from the logs, I'd check the mode on ~/.ssh/authorized_keys.
>> It should be 600 (aka rw-------).
>>
>> --
>> Eric Schnoebelen        eric at cirr.com        http://www.cirr.com
>>     "Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love;
>>          this is the eternal rule."  -- Buddha
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