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Old 01-23-2007
ssh RSA authentication failure
I am using an ssh pub key on two remote servers to allow ssh session without authentication. Both servers have the same id_rsa.pub copied from the host into the remote servers ~user/.ssh/authorized_keys. There is no passphrase for this key either.

The problem is that I am able to ssh into one remote server without a password prompt while the other server attempts to read the rsa key, but continues onto the password prompt.

Both remote servers have identical ssh_config, sshd_config, authorized_keys, and known_hosts files. V. OpenSSH_3.4p1, SSH protocols 1.5/2.0, OpenSS

Both ssh outputs are identical up to this point:

GOOD

Code:
debug1: authentications that can continue: publickey,password,keyboard-interactive
debug1: next auth method to try is publickey
debug1: try pubkey: /identity-test/id_rsa
debug1: input_userauth_pk_ok: pkalg ssh-rsa blen 149 lastkey 63950 hint 0
debug1: read PEM private key done: type RSA
debug1: ssh-userauth2 successful: method publickey
debug1: fd 6 setting O_NONBLOCK

BAD

Code:
debug1: authentications that can continue: publickey,password,keyboard-interactive
debug1: next auth method to try is publickey
debug1: try pubkey: /identity-test/id_rsa
debug1: authentications that can continue: publickey,password,keyboard-interactive
debug1: next auth method to try is keyboard-interactive
debug1: authentications that can continue: publickey,password,keyboard-interactive
debug1: next auth method to try is password

Any ideas?
# 2  
Old 01-23-2007
One common scenario for similar behaviour is that the authorized_keys file has too loose permission. Then, even if you have the public key in the file, it will just refuse to honour.

chmod 600 the file worked for me.
# 3  
Old 01-24-2007
After going as far as double checking PAM modules confs, I did a simple ls -ld on the user's #HOME dir and found that the server not allowing access was 0775 instead of 0755. A quick chmod and I was good to go.

thanks for the input anyway.
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