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Old 03-29-2010, 09:46 AM   #16
Sanford Stein
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Permissions changed on the target machine as indicated:

[mbp5vdrzqtui@pear .ssh]$ ls -ld
drwx------ 2 mbp5vdrzqtui mbp5vdrzqtui 4096 Mar 29 10:38 .
[mbp5vdrzqtui@pear .ssh]$ ls -l
total 16
-rw------- 1 mbp5vdrzqtui mbp5vdrzqtui 427 Mar 29 10:34 authorized_keys
-rw-r----- 1 mbp5vdrzqtui mbp5vdrzqtui 427 Mar 29 10:36 authorized_keys2
-rw-r--r-- 1 mbp5vdrzqtui mbp5vdrzqtui 427 Mar 29 10:38 id_rsa.pub_CEDAR
-rw-r--r-- 1 mbp5vdrzqtui mbp5vdrzqtui 1588 Mar 25 17:12 known_hosts

ssh and scp still ask for passwords.
 
Old 03-29-2010, 11:22 AM   #17
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Find out whether the public key is in authorized_keys or authorized_keys2. If it is in authorized_keys2, then please check its permissions and make sure it to be 600, not 640. It should work at any cost, if it is not working, please try the entire process with a new user in both machines. I am sure it will work. Because whatever steps you have mentioned r all correct as far as i can grasp.

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Old 03-29-2010, 02:44 PM   #18
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Did you perhaps cut and paste the public key into the authorized_keys file? I've done this before and it can put line terminators where you don't want them. It's easy to fix by joining each line back again so the record in the file is a single long string.
 
Old 03-31-2010, 12:10 PM   #19
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Saagar, I tried authorized_keys2 and it made no difference.
Ian, I did a diff and a wc on the public key and the authorized_keys file and they were identical.

Finally I started the whole process over with a different user and everything seems to be working just fine. There must be something about that one login that is different.
Since we don't really care about what the non-root login is, I guess that we are all set.
Thanks to everyone for your help.

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