ssh randomly not accepting my private key

reeseslover531 · 07-25-2007, 08:50 AM

so I have been using ssh on the server for quite some time. I have disabled password authentication and only use key based authentication. Now I have been using my key on my computer for months now. Just last night though I try to connect and it says

Code:

Ubuntu 6.10
Permission denied (publickey).

I haven't changed anything at all. At least, I can't think of anything I changed. I was playing with trying to install rtorstat. which required a little bit of playing with apt, but I never touched ssh stuff. What could be the problem?

reeseslover531 · 07-25-2007, 09:30 AM

another thing I did was I made the permissions 777 on my home folder, but then I went in and changed the permissions back to 600 on the authorized_keys file.

AlucardZero · 07-25-2007, 09:49 AM

Change id_rsa's permissions back to 600

hardly · 06-01-2010, 01:57 PM

No follow up. No resolution.

AlucardZero · 06-01-2010, 02:08 PM

thanks for your contribution to the two year old thread

hardly · 06-05-2010, 12:28 AM

I thought the point of searching before creating a new thread is to find answers and not ask redundant questions. But the answers aren't there.
Pardon me, sir. I have been dealing with a similar issue, and came here for an answer. There were suggestions, but no definitive answer. And this is something that I notice a lot.

anomie · 06-06-2010, 06:40 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by reeseslover531

another thing I did was I made the permissions 777 on my home folder, but then I went in and changed the permissions back to 600 on the authorized_keys file.

When StrictModes are enabled for sshd_config (which they are by default), this action will break Pubkey Authentication, period. The user's home directory should be writable only by that user.

IOW:

Code:

$ chmod -R go-w ~