Re: [Devil-Linux-discuss] sshd: Authentication refused: bad ownership or modes for directory /shm

[Bruce S. <bw...@ar...>]

Put the authorized_keys in the $HOME/.ssh/  directory
instead of under /etc   i.e.  /root/.ssh/authorized_keys
And make sure the .ssh subdirectory has 700 permissions.
If you are doing root, everything will be saved with
save-config    Works for me!  :-)

 - BS


> I was trying to set up passwordless authentication in
> ssh to my Devil-Linux Server. The public-keys are
> stored in /shm/etc/ssh/authorized-keys. But it didn't
> work and I got this notice:
> sshd: Authentication refused: bad ownership or modes
> for directory /shm
> 
> Changing the permissions for the directory /shm from
> 777 to 755 solves the problem. How can I resolve this 
> permantly without building a new CD?
> Does the change of the admission rights influence the
> running system?