decoding sshd failure

[David Corbin]

On Friday 04 June 2004 07:40, Andy Rushton wrote:
> Someone wrote:
> >>>Below is a fragment of output from sshd -d -d -d
> >>>
> >>>Can someone tell me why it doesn't like my publickey?  I think I've done
> >>>everything right, but no joy.  I can login using the password just fine.
>
> Sorry, I missed the start of this thread so I don't know who the
> original author is but I have some suggestions:
>
> I had a problem with ssh not finding my .ssh directory. It turned out
> that ssh gets your home directory from /etc/passwd and not from $HOME
> and in my case, for perverse Windows-related reasons I don't understand,
> this was different. Editing /etc/passwd fixed it. Check the path that
> ssh is reporting that its looking in and check that this is the right
> place.
>

/home/dcorbin, which is what I expected.

> Also, I had an embarrassing error the first time I set this up - being
> British I spelt authorized_keys with an 's' not a 'z'. It took me a
> while to spot the problem.
>
> You don't say what your directory structure is, so could one of these be
> the problem?

The directory structure, as near as I can tell, is "normal".  Permission seem 
'reasonable' (and I seem to remember sshd will tell you when your permissions 
are wrong).

>
> Andy

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