Permissions for ssh and scp

[Mario Lang]

"John J. Boyer" <director at chpi.org> writes:

> I just installed Redhat 9 on one of my machines. Norcmlly I access this 
> machines through ssh and scp. However, now I can do these only for root. 
> If I try to do them on an ordinary account I get the message "Connection 
> reset by peer". Evidently permissions have to be set on something, but 
> what something?

Check ~/.ssh.  Most files in there should be 0600, and the directory
itself should be 0700.

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