Frazzled on id_dsa.pub logins (long post with ssh -vvv)

[Cameron Simpson]

On 30Mar2006 23:23, Michael Johnson <mjohnson at coderyte.com> wrote:
| On Mar 30, 2006, at 11:09 PM, Cameron Simpson wrote:
| >This is from /var/log/secure?
| 
| Nope...but this comment got me to look there.  =-)
| sshd[15622]: Authentication refused: bad ownership or modes for  
| directory /root/.ssh
| 
| >I'd check:
| >    /root
| >    	No public or group write perms on /root, /root/.ssh or the
| >	authorized_keys file.
| 
| Ding ding ding...we have a winner.
| 
| The permissions were fine, but the ownership was messed up.  I  
| restored /root/.ssh to root:root and it was fine.
| 
| I guess it helps to look in the right log file.
| 
| Thanks for the kick in the head.  Staring at a problem too long and  
| hard can make you completely miss the obvious.

I have the advantage of having stared too long and hard at exactly this kind
of problem in the past:-)
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