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This is probably the correct answer, as everything worked (ssh to it, transfer of key, etc) apart from using the key. chmod 600 ~/.ssh/* ; chmod 700 ~/.ssh

Olivier Dulac
– Olivier Dulac

2017-12-15 09:20:41 +00:00
Commented Dec 15, 2017 at 9:20
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This is wrong. OpenSSH requires privatekey files to be unreadable (and unwritable) by anyone but owner, but authorized_keys, and known_hosts and other publickey (and cert) files and the directory, only need to be unwritable. OpenSSH itself creates (if needed) the files and directory with 644 and 755 respectively (ignoring umask!) and they are used.

dave_thompson_085
– dave_thompson_085

2020-06-15 08:29:55 +00:00
Commented Jun 15, 2020 at 8:29

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