[maemo-developers] ssh permission denied

[From: Kees Jongenburger]

On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 9:27 PM, Jeffrey
Barish<jeff_barish at earthlink.net> wrote:
> There was an update to openssh recently.  Since installing it, I cannot ssh
> to the N800.  I copied id_rsa.pub to /home/user/.ssh/authorized_keys even
> though it had not changed.  I edited /etc/ssh/ssh_config so that it contains
> PubkeyAuthentication yes
> RSAAuthentication yes
usually  you need to use authorized_keys2 and not authorized_keys is
you use ssh2
> ssh is still asking me for user's password when I do ssh user at nokia.  I even
> tried
> PasswordAuthentication no
> The permission on authorized_keys is 600 and the owner is user.users.  When
> I changed PasswordAuthentication to no in /etc/ssh/sshd_config, I get
> Permission denied (publickey)

try using ssh -v n810 to get more information about where is goes wrong
Also check the .ssh directory permissions they should not be group or
world readable

Greetings