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Posted by AndyJ, 01-03-2008, 12:05 AM
Hi guys, I was trying to generate ssh key for my server and get this message below andyj: this is my username for my domain which is hosted in that server. How do i allow 'andyj' user to have permission to do this ? Note, I can do this with 'root' just fine. I'm using CentOS 5. Thanks
Posted by foobic, 01-03-2008, 12:19 AM
Your user doesn't have permission to write to that directory. I believe it's usually user:user 700.
Posted by AndyJ, 01-03-2008, 12:34 AM
Thanks but what do you mean by 'user:user 700' ? sorry i am new to this. YEs, i believe user 'andyj' doesn't have permission to write this file. Can we change this ? if yes, how do i do that ? thanks
Posted by foobic, 01-03-2008, 12:44 AM
Show current ownership and permissions: Change ownership, if necessary (as root): Change permissions, if necessary: You may also have problems with the permissions on the parent directory /home/andyj.
Posted by david510, 01-03-2008, 12:57 AM
Make sure the following permissions are set. file authorized_keys 600 folder .ssh 700 Home Directory 711 Keys (id_dsa,id_rsa) 600 Public Keys (id_dsa.pub,id_rsa.pub) 644
Posted by AndyJ, 01-03-2008, 01:16 AM
Thanks, it works now. The problem was the permission of .ssh folder.

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