Topic: Ssh not reading authorized_keys for admin

[oitdmser]

I'm running SME 7.4 with remote access enabled, passwords disabled.

I successfully setup root with my authorized_keys file and can login remotely. I can't get ssh to read the authorized_keys for admin though. I'm using the EXACT same file for both. I copied the authorized_keys from /root/.ssh/ to /home/e-smith/files/users/admin/.ssh/
Then ran:

chown admin:admin authorized_keys
and
chmod 600 authorized_keys

I also double-checked that permissions were 700 on .ssh with owner/group of admin.

Every time I try to login via ssh to admin it errors out: access denied (publicKey), the same error as though there was no authorized_keys file at all.

There are no entries for admin in the ssh logfile.

Any thoughts?

[Daniel B.]

Hi.

The home directory of the admin user is not /home/e-smith/files/users/admin, but /home/e-smith, so you have to put the authorized_keys file in /home/e-smith/.ssh/


Regards, Daniel

[oitdmser]

Great, that worked. Thanks!

[CharlieBrady]

As a future hint, just use ~admin/.ssh/xxxx.