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RE: SSH and Remote Key authentication
- From: "Norman Vine" <nhv at cape dot com>
- To: <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2004 19:31:38 -0500
- Subject: RE: SSH and Remote Key authentication
- Reply-to: <nhv at cape dot com>
Igor Pechtchanski writes:
>
> First off, if I'm reading the debug output correctly, sshd is complaining
> about the ownership of the home directory *on the server*. Is $HOST a
> remote machine, or your local (Windows/Cygwin) one?
Doh !!
Thank you for pointing out the obvious :-)
Every thing works as expected once I correct the permissions on the server
Thanks again
Norman
>
> On Sun, 15 Feb 2004, Norman Vine wrote:
>
> > Hi all
> >
> > I am trying to use SSH remote key authentication
> > It appears as if the remote $HOST does not like
> > the permissions on my home dir
> > debug1: Remote: Authentication refused: bad ownership or modes for directory /home/$USER
> > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> > debug1: Server refused our key.
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