openssh auto login

Gordon Messmer yinyang at eburg.com
Sat Jul 2 01:18:12 UTC 2005


Bill Rees wrote:
>       I upgraded a redhat 7.3 system to FC4 and one of the problems that 
> has surfaced is that the ssh auto login feature that worked on 7.3, no 
> longer works.

Permission checks have gotten more strict since 7.3.  Check your logs 
(don't recall if it's "messages" or "secure", but probably the latter) 
for clues as to which file/directory isn't right.

IIRC, the home directory and .ssh must not have group write permissions. 
   The .ssh/config file must not have any permissions for group or 
others.  The .ssh/authorized_keys file must not be group writable.




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