Hi,

By using putty generator I generate a publicssh key and privatessh key and i copied and pasted the created publickey in the directory .ssh,while configured privatekey in putty terminal in client while im login in using private key im facing following error

default i had authorized_keys in .ssh/authorized_keys i faced lots problem so i changed the path as below

I also enabled
i followed the folowing step
1. Created a folder for public SSH keys
mkdir /etc/publicSSHkeys
2. Moved the authorized_keys file there
mv ~/.ssh/authorized_keys /etc/publicSSHkeys/
3. Modified sshd_config to the new location, change this…to
AuthorizedKeysFile .ssh/authorized_keys
to this:
AuthorizedKeysFile /etc/publicSSHkeys/authorized_keys
4. Then i just need to start the server
service sshd start
5. You’ll still need to make sure your public key is in /etc/publicSSHkeys/authorized_keys, and your SSH client (in my case Putty) is loading your private key.

chmod -R 777 /etc/publicSSHkeys

i can some pin point my problem where im making mistake ..

loginas:root
server refused our key
Access denied
root@xx.xx.xx.'s password:

i followed the below link for configuration
http://linux-sxs.org/networking/openssh.putty.html
Regards
arun

the public key should be placed in:
/root/.ssh/authorized_keys (if it's a rsa key)
/root/.ssh/authorized_keys2 (if it's a dsa key)

The .ssh folder and all its files needs to be owned by root and have 600 permissions

check the /var/log/secure or /var/log/auth.log for errors when you login in and the key is refused

RMI

The steps you listed are not the ones in the link you posted. So I’m confused about the combination, and why you want to put them in /etc? Just put the one-line public part of the key-pair into ~/.ssh/authorized_keys and you are done.

Pitfalls: Your home directory may not be writable by anyone but yourself. The ~/.ssh may not be readable by anyone except yourself.

...and BTW
the key should not be in /root/.ssh as root should not log in over the network using any service anyway.

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Hi

Thanks for ur reply isolved out prolem by changing the authorizqd key to path

vi.ssh/authorizedkeys

ssh-rsa AAAAB3NzaC1yc2EAAAABJQAAAIEAg2CZvrXsoEEaFKcrQrCllxtnxAMqcJWMMgya0udXGpHJwqjDXMq1J+5LXB2zw/ZbplHx5gwyPDzszwTsAWGF7j4oykkmX/I1ayyjoJ+prwp4XzbpJ152DJ2QZhyEiMFUxFxjKNyTgdhDd3igkM1/NpZwhFmvcQXL95pWX8fjUj8= ssh-rsa 15245

i does int removed out the extension ssh-rsa 15245 while pasting into authorizedkeys extension file and i change the permission to 777 to authorisedkey now my error got resolved thanks for everyone huhad replied to my post

Regards
arun

This is real bad...

Hi
in ubuntu 10.04 u can find itt by default but centos u have to add %h before /.ssh/authorized_keys
for multi user login by using ssh key generator


AuthorizedKeysFile %h/.ssh/authorized_keys

The explanation is in man sshd_config about this parameter, and it ends with:So, specifying it this way or not at all makes no difference AFAICS.