That was it!!! Thank you very much! -------------------------------------------------- From: "Ned Slider" <ned at unixmail.co.uk> Sent: Saturday, October 11, 2008 11:07 AM To: "CentOS mailing list" <centos at centos.org> Subject: Re: [CentOS] Unable to use SSH password-less logins > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >