After hours of going around in circles I have decided to post.
With loglevel set to DEBUG2, I get the following error.
Code:
Error: Could not open keyfile '/home/username/.ssh/authorized_keys/id_dsa.pub': Permission denied
I realize I probably shouldnt be specifying the actual file in the sshd_config, but without it I get the following error.
Code:
User <username> authorized keys /home/<username>/.ssh/authorized_keys is not a regular file
I have tried
Code:
chown -R <username>:<username> ~/.ssh
chmod 700 ~/.ssh
chmod 600 ~/.ssh/authorized_keys
And still recieve permission denied.
Basically I have generated the keys using sshkeygen and added the private key to puttygen to save in the putty format, before loading it into putty
The only thing that I can think of which might be affecting this is that I have played with the sshd_config file previously when doing some tests with postfix.
Here is the sshd_config as it stands.
Code:
# Package generated configuration file
# See the sshd_config(5) manpage for details
# What ports, IPs and protocols we listen for
Port <myport>
# Use these options to restrict which interfaces/protocols sshd will bind to
#ListenAddress ::
#ListenAddress 0.0.0.0
Protocol 2
# HostKeys for protocol version 2
HostKey /etc/ssh/ssh_host_rsa_key
HostKey /etc/ssh/ssh_host_dsa_key
#Privilege Separation is turned on for security
UsePrivilegeSeparation yes
# Lifetime and size of ephemeral version 1 server key
KeyRegenerationInterval 3600
ServerKeyBits 768
# Logging
SyslogFacility AUTH
# LogLevel INFO
LogLevel DEBUG2
# Authentication:
LoginGraceTime 120
PermitRootLogin no
StrictModes yes
AllowUsers ttweb
RSAAuthentication yes
PubkeyAuthentication yes
AuthorizedKeysFile %h/.ssh/authorized_keys/id_dsa.pub
# Don't read the user's ~/.rhosts and ~/.shosts files
IgnoreRhosts yes
# For this to work you will also need host keys in /etc/ssh_known_hosts
RhostsRSAAuthentication no
# similar for protocol version 2
HostbasedAuthentication no
# Uncomment if you don't trust ~/.ssh/known_hosts for RhostsRSAAuthentication
#IgnoreUserKnownHosts yes
# To enable empty passwords, change to yes (NOT RECOMMENDED)
PermitEmptyPasswords no
# Change to yes to enable challenge-response passwords (beware issues with
# some PAM modules and threads)
ChallengeResponseAuthentication no
# Change to no to disable tunnelled clear text passwords
#PasswordAuthentication yes
# Kerberos options
#KerberosAuthentication no
#KerberosGetAFSToken no
#KerberosOrLocalPasswd yes
#KerberosTicketCleanup yes
# GSSAPI options
#GSSAPIAuthentication no
#GSSAPICleanupCredentials yes
X11Forwarding yes
X11DisplayOffset 10
PrintMotd no
PrintLastLog yes
TCPKeepAlive yes
#UseLogin no
#MaxStartups 10:30:60
#Banner /etc/issue.net
# Allow client to pass locale environment variables
AcceptEnv LANG LC_*
Subsystem sftp /usr/lib/openssh/sftp-server
# Set this to 'yes' to enable PAM authentication, account processing,
# and session processing. If this is enabled, PAM authentication will
# be allowed through the ChallengeResponseAuthentication and
# PasswordAuthentication. Depending on your PAM configuration,
# PAM authentication via ChallengeResponseAuthentication may bypass
# and ChallengeResponseAuthentication to 'no'.
UsePAM yes
And finally, here are the permissions on the directories
Code:
drwx------ 3 <username> <username> 4096 Nov 6 10:33 .ssh
drw------- 2 <username> <username> 4096 Nov 6 10:56 authorized_keys
and rw on the actual file..
All of this is running on ubuntu 10.4 btw
Help appreciated... thanks tp
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