Ssh with public key authentication

[Sweetman, David E RDECOM CIO]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com 
> [mailto:redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Mike Burger
> Sent: Wednesday, September 13, 2006 10:51 AM
> To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list
> Subject: Re: Ssh with public key authentication
> 
> 
> > I am trying to set up ssh public key authentication between several 
> > RHEL machines.  I can successfully connect from machine1 (AS4) to 
> > other machines (WS4,  release 9) using public key ( no password 
> > entered).  But I have not
> > been able to  connect to machine1 using public key.     I 
> have gone thru
> > the
> > steps several times with no success.  Any suggestions on 
> what to do or 
> > how to get better information than from the -v option ( -vvv is the 
> > best I've gotten so far) ?
> 
> Have you added the public key for the other systems to the 
> .ssh/authorized_keys file on system1?

I have added the public keys to authorized_keys on machine1.  
On all machines:

chmod 755 ~/.ssh
chmod 600 ~/.ssh/authorized_keys