-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said...
> > I accidentally did a chmod -R on my home directory and messed up the > permissions in my home directory (/home/ssahmed). Now, I am unable to > SSH from work into my home system. > > Initially, I noticed in the following message in my log files: > > sshd[23261]: DSA authentication refused for ssahmed: bad ownership or > modes for '/home/ssahmed/.ssh/authorized_keys2'. > > Then I changed the permission of /home/ssahmed/.ssh/authorized_keys2 to: > > -rw------- 1 ssahmed ssahmed 938 Oct 26 18:18 .ssh/authorized_keys2 > > and now I get the following error message: > > sshd[23600]: DSA authentication refused for ssahmed: bad ownership or > modes for '/home/ssahmed/'. > > The permissions on my home directory are: > > drwxr-sr-x 20 ssahmed ssahmed 4096 Oct 26 18:02 /home/ssahmed/ > > and the permissions on my ~/.ssh directory are: > > drwx------ 2 ssahmed ssahmed 4096 Oct 26 18:19 .ssh/ > > > Can anyone tell me what the correct permissions should be to fix this > problem ? Well, I have: on /home/phil: drwxr-xr-x 112 phil users 35840 Oct 26 17:30 phil/ and on ~/.ssh: drwxr-xr-x 2 phil users 1024 Oct 2 00:46 .ssh on the files in ~/.ssh: - -rw-r--r-- 1 phil users 2969 Jul 4 13:33 authorized_keys - -rw------- 1 phil users 524 Apr 5 2000 identity - -rw-r--r-- 1 phil users 328 Apr 5 2000 identity.pub - -rw------- 1 phil users 13090 Oct 19 22:23 known_hosts - -rw------- 1 phil users 512 Mar 26 2000 random_seed - -- - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Phil Brutsche [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG fingerprint: 9BF9 D84C 37D0 4FA7 1F2D 7E5E FD94 D264 50DE 1CFC GPG key id: 50DE1CFC GPG public key: http://tux.creighton.edu/~pbrutsch/gpg-public-key.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE5+LEf/ZTSZFDeHPwRAvZmAJ9NCI6N6l6FV7eZxOp53UNq8IjdVACfV4Uc FfIyHP3oXjSWllhlC1HvFkY= =ksEw -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
