[ale] ssh help?

[Nomad the Wanderer]

Thus spake Mike Kachline (kachline at cc.gatech.edu):

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> On Mon, 18 Jan 1999, Nomad the Wanderer wrote:
> >Thus spake Mike Kachline (kachline at cc.gatech.edu):
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> >> On Sun, 17 Jan 1999, Nomad the Wanderer wrote:
> >> >I did all this.  I can ssh from remote to local and use the RSA,
> >> >but I still can't go from local to remote.
> >> <snip>
> >> 	Hmm. What does "ssh -v remote.box" tell you, and is sshd running on
> >> remote.box?
> >> 
> >
> >This is neat..  It refuses the authentication.  Any ideas why?
> >
> >{0}:dogbert:/home/nomad>ssh -v dudley
> >SSH Version 1.2.26 [i686-unknown-linux], protocol version 1.5.
> >Standard version.  Does not use RSAREF.
> >dogbert: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh_config
> >dogbert: ssh_connect: getuid 1000 geteuid 0 anon 0
> >dogbert: Connecting to dudley [206.168.154.1] port 22.
> 
>   <snip>
>   <snip>
> 
> >dogbert: Trying RSA authentication with key 'nomad at dogbert.rnd-consulting.com'
> >dogbert: Remote: Bad file modes for /usr/shell/n/nomad/.ssh/authorized_keys
> <snip>
> 
> 	Well, if it helps any, my authorized_keys file is chmoded u+rw g+r o+r.
> The man page for ssh says as follows:
> 
> $HOME/.ssh/authorized_keys
> ....
>             separated by spaces).  This file is not highly sen-
>               sitive,  but  the   recommended   permissions   are
>               read/write for the user, and not accessible by oth-
>               ers.
> 
> 	...which I guess means I ought to do some chmoding of my own. :) My
> only other guess would be that one of your machines is talking ssh1 and the
> other is talking ssh2. Try using "ssh1 dudley". If things hose, then try "ssh2
> dudley".  I'm thinking that perhaps' dudley's sshd is an sshd1, whereas the
> "ssh" client on dogbert is actually soft linked to "ssh2". I have actually had
> this problem before. sshd2 daemons refuse to talk to ssh1 clients, and vice
> versa. :(

I fixed all that.  Latest appears that my key is nomad at dogbert.  The remote host
see's me as nomad at dogbert.rnd-consulting.com.

How do I get around this?

Robert