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# 8  
Old 07-25-2012
Your permissions on those folders may be wrong. sshd will refuse to read them if they're set with insecure file and folder permissions.

Your ~/.ssh/ folders on both ends need to be 700. Your authorized_keys needs to be 744.

I don't see much point in putting the key in authorized_keys2.
# 9  
Old 07-25-2012
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Originally Posted by Corona688
Your permissions on those folders may be wrong. sshd will refuse to read them if they're set with insecure file and folder permissions.

Your ~/.ssh/ folders on both ends need to be 700. Your authorized_keys needs to be 744.

I don't see much point in putting the key in authorized_keys2.
Yup, those are the permissions I have set and still prompts for password.

I have also checked /etc/ssh files (ssh_config and sshd_config) based on some info found online and both look correct.
# 10  
Old 07-25-2012
Tell me more about your local system and the system you're ssh-ing into. Are they different OSes?
# 11  
Old 07-25-2012
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Originally Posted by Corona688
Tell me more about your local system and the system you're ssh-ing into. Are they different OSes?
Actually SCPing a file on the same machine, just between two different accounts. This only involves one server, but between accounts I figured this should be done via SCP as we are trying to automate this process.

Does this change things? Is there a better way to copy files between two accounts?
# 12  
Old 07-25-2012
How about you tell me the operating system of your single system, then? Smilie

I might use sudo -u username cp, though you'd have to configure sudo to allow it passwordlessly for the relevant users.
# 13  
Old 07-25-2012
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Originally Posted by Corona688
How about you tell me the operating system of your single system, then? Smilie

I might use sudo -u username cp, though you'd have to configure sudo to allow it passwordlessly for the relevant users.
Sorry about that.

The server is running Solaris 10 8/07 s10s_u4wos_12b SPARC.
# 14  
Old 07-25-2012
Try a DSA key instead of an RSA one.
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