SSH Public Key Authentication Isn't Working

[Christopher K. Johnson]

FearOfCarpet wrote:

> I did a fresh install of Yarrow, but copied a lot of config files 
> (like samba and my firewall scripts) including most of my /home 
> partition from a RH9 install. I made new public/private key pairs,  
> created my new ~/.ssh/authorized_keys file, and eventually copied my 
> /etc/ssh/sshd_conf file from RH9...  Everyone is set up to use 
> ssh-agent and public key authentication, but the Fedora computer 
> refuses to do so. No matter what I do it always prompts me for a 
> password. Is there something about Fedora that would prevent this, or 
> should this question be directed at an Open-SSH forum?
>
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Try ssh with -v argument, or -vv to get an idea where it is failing. 
 Could be that your .ssh directory or authorized_keys file have 
incorrect mode.  They should be 700 and 644 respectively.

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