[lug] stupid ssh config question

Steven A Hart steven.hart at colorado.edu
Thu Jun 15 10:17:24 MDT 2017


Stephen, agreed.

David, id_rsa is located in /root/.ssh/

On Thu, Jun 15, 2017 at 10:15 AM, david <dafr at dafr.us> wrote:

> On 06/15/2017 09:02 AM, Steven A Hart wrote:
>
> So on the server I generated the keys resulting in id_rsa and id_rsa.pub
>> being created.  I moved  id_rsa.pub to authorized_keys and copied that
>> over to the root account on the client in /root/.ssh.  Sure enough, the
>> ssh works from server to client without password.
>>
>> The problem now is that when I ssh from anywhere to the server as either
>> root or my admin account, I get:
>>
>> Permission denied (publickey).
>>
>> I know I made a stupid mistake somewhere, I just need someone to point
>> and say "look there stupid!"
>>
>
>
> Have you copied id_rsa to the appropriate home account on the originating
> server? Without that, I would expect the error you present above.
>
> dafr
>
>
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