Re: [Gumstix-users] difficulty with public key auth for non-root users

[Craig H. <cr...@gu...>]

On Feb 14, 2006, at 1:03 PM, Taylor Glenn wrote:

> I'm having a bit of trouble getting public keys to work for users  
> other than root. I'm running the latest dropbear (0.47).
>
> I take an authorized_keys file that works for root, copy it to the  
> user's .ssh directory, chown it to the user and set the same  
> relative permissions (700 for ~, ~/.ssh, 600 for ~/.ssh/ 
> authorized_keys), and then try to log in as the user--only to get a  
> password prompt.
>
> Is there something obvious that I am missing (sorry I was a bit  
> sparse on the details, let me know if you want more)? Can anyone  
> else replicate this behavior?

openssh is very picky about permissions on .ssh and .ssh/* --  
dropbear probably is too.  I'd suggest checking /var/log/message  
after a login failure and see what it says.  Also try ssh'ing to the  
gumstix using the -v flag to the ssh client -- that'll dump more  
information about where the login is failing, and might be helpful.

C