I seems to recall this might have been discussed before, but I wasn't sure and couldn't dig up the conversation, so here goes.
I just got around to installing ssh so I could learn about it and start using it, and I noticed that when I set up one of my machines with a valid authorized_keys file and try to connect from another machine, I get refused for RSA authentication, and ssh falls back on passwords. If I "chmod g-w ~", the problem vanishes. ssh doesn't like group writable home directories, even though in the standard Debian scheme this isn't a problem. Should the default Debian home dir permissions be changed, should ssh be modified, or what? $ssh -v somehost [...] raven: Encryption type: idea raven: Sent encrypted session key. raven: Received encrypted confirmation. raven: Trying rhosts or /etc/hosts.equiv with RSA host authentication. raven: Remote: Rhosts authentication refused for rlb: bad ownership or modes for home directory. raven: Server refused our rhosts authentication or host key. raven: No agent. raven: Trying RSA authentication with key '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' raven: Remote: Bad file modes for /home/rlb raven: Server refused our key. raven: Doing password authentication. [...] -- Rob -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
