[xubuntu-users] rsync using ssh paired keys

[Bill]

On 05/26/2013 05:40 PM, Mike Kupfer wrote:
> Bill wrote:
>
>> One thing I did notice is a line after
>> successful login using the password which says "Remote: Ignored
>> authorized keys: bad ownership or modes for directory
>> /home/bill". Permissions are all what I have been told they should be
>> (700 on .ssh and 600 on the id_rsa.pub and authorized_keys files). I
>> do not know what "bad ownership or modes" means.
>
> The term "modes" refers to the permissions settings (also known as the
> mode bits).
>
> So the message means that either your home directory is owned by someone
> other than you (unlikely), or that it's writable by someone other than
> you.  IIRC, the ssh server is making sure that nobody else can fiddle
> with your authorized_keys, so it checks the permissions of all the
> directories between your .ssh directory and /.  Make sure your home
> directory is not 775 or 777 (those are the 2 most likely bad settings).
>
> mike

That was it! The permissions were 775 on the home directory of one of 
the machines. (Don't ever remember changing those permissions, but must 
have done so at some point.) It works as it should now. Thanks so much!

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Regards,
Bill