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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers SSH key authentication Post 100107 by stancwong on Thursday 23rd of February 2006 11:45:40 PM
Old 02-24-2006
SSH key authentication

Hi all,

I have got a Solaris machine and I have several user account setup up with the .ssh and authorized_keys file in their home directories.

I have check all the permission and ownership and they are all indentical and belongs to the user ID and group respectively. However one of the account is not willing to let me in when I try to ssh to it under the account.

Is there anything else I missed to configure? Thanks guys
 

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USERDEL(8)						      System Manager's Manual							USERDEL(8)

NAME
userdel - Delete a user account and related files SYNOPSIS
userdel [-r] login DESCRIPTION
The userdel command modifies the system account files, deleting all entries that refer to login. The named user must exist. The options which apply to the userdel command are: -r Files in the user's home directory will be removed along with the home directory itself and the user's mail spool. Files located in other file systems will have to be searched for and deleted manually. FILES
/etc/passwd - user account information /etc/shadow - secure user account information /etc/group - group information CAVEATS
userdel will not allow you to remove an account if the user is currently logged in. You must kill any running processes which belong to an account that you are deleting. You may not remove any NIS attributes on an NIS client. This must be performed on the NIS server. SEE ALSO
chfn(1), chsh(1), passwd(1), groupadd(8), groupdel(8), groupmod(8), useradd(8), usermod(8) AUTHOR
Julianne Frances Haugh (jockgrrl@ix.netcom.com) USERDEL(8)
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