I upgraded to 2.9p2. Although I had no trouble setting up other users to accept public key login, I can't figure out what I'm doing wrong with one of them. debug1: got SSH2_MSG_SERVICE_ACCEPT debug1: authentications that can continue: publickey,password,keyboard-interactive debug1: next auth method to try is publickey debug1: try privkey: /home/billman/.ssh/id_dsa debug1: try pubkey: /home/billman/.ssh/id_rsa debug1: authentications that can continue: \ publickey,password,keyboard-interactive debug1: next auth method to try is password [EMAIL PROTECTED]'s password: debug1: authentications that can continue: publickey,password,keyboard-interactive Permission denied, please try again. After which the password continues to be rejected (it's the correct pw for that user) and after 3 tries login fails. I've looked at the modes and ownership for both server and client ~/user directories, as well for .ssh, all the files for .ssh, and anything else I can think of. Since this user on the client machine has a different initial group from that user on the host, I even changed the user's initial groups so they matched on client and host. Also on the host, the group for the user's home directory was different, but I changed that too. So ls -l -a ~/.ssh shows identically, including . and .. , on both machines. Permissions are correct and identical across client and host. I have no problem adding testuser to both machines and getting login through public key. Same with root. Help appreciated: I'm tired and I just don't seem to get it. -Alex -- __________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------ "Yeah, I'm drunk all right, and you're crazy. Tomorrow I'll be sober, but you'll still be crazy for the rest of your life." -W.C. Fields ----- End forwarded message ----- -- __________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------ "Yeah, I'm drunk all right, and you're crazy. Tomorrow I'll be sober, but you'll still be crazy for the rest of your life." -W.C. Fields