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/

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