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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users Is SSH Key Authentication Disabled? Post 302669305 by agama on Tuesday 10th of July 2012 10:19:47 PM
Old 07-10-2012
What are the permissions for the home directory on the target (remote) host? Ssh won't allow public key auth if the group has write permissions on the home directory. I've been burned by this before, and wasn't expecting it to be a factor, so thought I'd throw it out as something that you might not have checked and/or been aware of. If your home directory mode isn't 755, try that.

Otherwise, you might post the permssions of the ~/.ssh and the files inside of it.
 

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SSH2_AUTH_PUBKEY_FILE(3)						 1						  SSH2_AUTH_PUBKEY_FILE(3)

ssh2_auth_pubkey_file - Authenticate using a public key

SYNOPSIS
bool ssh2_auth_pubkey_file (resource $session, string $username, string $pubkeyfile, string $privkeyfile, [string $passphrase]) DESCRIPTION
Authenticate using a public key read from a file. PARAMETERS
o $session - An SSH connection link identifier, obtained from a call to ssh2_connect(3). o $username - o $pubkeyfile - The public key file needs to be in OpenSSH's format. It should look something like: ssh-rsa AAAAB3NzaC1yc2EAAA....NX6sqSnHA8= rsa-key-20121110 o $privkeyfile - o $passphrase - If $privkeyfile is encrypted (which it should be), the $passphrase must be provided. RETURN VALUES
Returns TRUE on success or FALSE on failure. EXAMPLES
Example #1 Authentication using a public key <?php $connection = ssh2_connect('shell.example.com', 22, array('hostkey'=>'ssh-rsa')); if (ssh2_auth_pubkey_file($connection, 'username', '/home/username/.ssh/id_rsa.pub', '/home/username/.ssh/id_rsa', 'secret')) { echo "Public Key Authentication Successful "; } else { die('Public Key Authentication Failed'); } ?> NOTES
Note The underlying libssh library doesn't support partial auths very cleanly That is, if you need to supply both a public key and a password it will appear as if this function has failed. In this particular case a failure from this call may just mean that auth hasn't been completed yet. You would need to ignore this failure and continue on and call ssh2_auth_password(3) in order to complete authentication. PHP Documentation Group SSH2_AUTH_PUBKEY_FILE(3)
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