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I've got about a dozen servers that I log into via an authorised ssh key, and up until today it was working fine. Today, one of those servers refuses to accept my key - it accepts a root key and my passphrase, just not my key. Nothing has changed in the ssh configs, and the key is still in my authorized_keys. Any idea why it's stopped working?

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  • .ssh directory chmod 700?
  • .ssh/authorized_keys chmod 600?

owned by you?

If the server sshd_config wasn't changed and the other keys work, I would suspect something happened to the directory or permissions that contain your key.

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  • .ssh is 0700, authorized_keys is 0600. Both owned by me.
    – Andrew
    Jul 1, 2010 at 2:49
  • key matches? anything in the auth logs?
    – karmawhore
    Jul 1, 2010 at 2:53
  • Authentication refused: bad ownership or modes for directory /home/<username>. Currently 0770.
    – Andrew
    Jul 1, 2010 at 3:08
  • I believe the group writeable may be what caused it to decline. Try chmod 750 and ls -ald /home/username to make sure the uid/gid exist.
    – karmawhore
    Jul 1, 2010 at 3:13
  • Aha! Fixed! Excellent. Group writable was it.
    – Andrew
    Jul 1, 2010 at 3:17

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