>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 01/26/06 2:07 pm >>> On Thu, Jan 26, 2006 at 01:53:54PM -0500, Brian Blater (BBList) wrote: > > /var/log/messages file on the remote host and I'm getting the following: > Authentication refused: bad ownership or modes for directory > /home/bblater. Checked the perms here and the ~/.ssh directory was set > >The way that I read that error message is that it is complaining about >your HOME directory, not ".ssh".
You are correct. I was not aware that sshd would look back to HOME directory for permissions. I now have to look at the scripting to make sure I can do what we need with the group perms being set to read-only. Thanks for everyone's help, I've learned something new again. Brian -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/
