On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 12:40:10AM -0500, Robert Citek wrote: > I'm guessing not. But the real answer is I don't know because I > don't have root access to the RHEL box. In fact, I don't know where > this box is physically located. All I have is the name/IP address. > > My initial guess was some setting the sshd_config file. But even when > I copied the config file to my Ubuntu box, I couldn't replicate the > problem on Ubuntu. That is, keys worked as expected. > > My guess is now that it is something in PAM.
Unless the admin monkeyed with the default config, it should work. And even if the admin did change it, I would be very surprised that they allow password authentication and not pub/priv key. Some things to check: - permission on home directories (not group/other writable) - permission on $HOME/.ssh directories (not group/other writable) - home directory mounts properly on remote machine > On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 6:53 PM, Patrick Pippen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > It should then just work, UNLESS the system's sysadmin has disabled it. > > > > Does it work for root? -- David Dooling http://www.politigenomics.com/ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Central West End Linux Users Group (via Google Groups) Main page: http://www.cwelug.org To post: [email protected] To subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] More options: http://groups.google.com/group/cwelug -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
