Joe Tseng wrote: > I am trying to ssh from my Windows/Cygwin xterm window into my CentOS52 > servers w/o using passwords but my keys seem like they're being > ignored. I created the key in cygwin using: > > $ ssh-keygen -t dsa -f id_dsa > > And copied id_dsa.pub over to centos:~/.ssh/authorized_keys > > Ideas? > Check your permissions on ~/.ssh and ~/.ssh/authorized_keys on the CentOS server, they should be 700 and 600, respectively. See here: http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Network/SecuringSSH#head-9c5717fe7f9bb26332c9d67571200f8c1e4324bc