Now /var/log/auth.How To Hosting Awardspace 2022 Source: Google tells me ~/.ssh/ should be 700 and and ~/.ssh/authorized_keys should be 600, so I did that. Ok, /var/log/auth.log said: sshd: Authentication refused: bad ownership or modes for directory /home/vorkbaard/.ssh How can I get this to work? Thanks! EDIT: I found that the error may be solved by putting the key in a place outside the user's home folder but that's only useful if the home folder is encrypted, which this one is not.Īlso tried generating a 4096 bit key, thinking perhaps 1024 was too short.

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I tried putting the public key in a file under the directory. Now if I load the profile in PuTTY (I verified the private key is still in Connection > SSH > Auth and that the path is correct) and run the profile, it says Server refused our key I restarted the ssh server with sudo service ssh restart In PuTTY under Connection > SSH > Auth I entered the path to the private key it generated on my client and saved the session settings. I copied the part from 'ssh-rsa AAA' to and put that in the file ~/.ssh/authorized_keys on my server (in my own homefolder). In /etc/ssh/sshd_config I have this line: AuthorizedKeysFile %h/.ssh/authorized_keysĪnd on my client's public key file it says this: - BEGIN SSH2 PUBLIC KEY. I downloaded puttygen.exe and had it generate a key pair. The client is a Windows box running PuTTY and the server is a Ubuntu 12.04 LTS server. I'm trying to setup ssh authentication with key files in stead of username/password.

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