SSH acting funny. Can connect to one computer, but not another.

[mjman]

I have a strange situation going on. I have three computers, one laptop and two desktops. I need to connect, from the laptop, to the desktops, using ssh. So, I am trying to set up ssh with public key authentication (dsa).

I created the keypair using ssh-keygen. This created files in ~/.ssh: id_dsa and id_dsa.pub.
I copied id_dsa.pub to the file ~/.ssh/authorized_keys on both desktops.
I can now connect to one of the computers using the dsa keypair, but the other computer does not accept it.
I cannot figure out why this is the case, as sshd is configured the same way on both desktops.

[AndyGreen]

When the other computer "does not accept" your key, what is logged on it (/var/log/messages and/or /var/log/secure) from the connection attempt?

What is the error you get at your client?

Check CAREFULLY the permissions on ~/.ssh itself and authorized_keys.

drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Feb 16 14:28 .ssh
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 232 Feb 16 14:21 authorized_keys2

Check that you may have changed /etc/ssh/sshd_config to only accept SSH v2 traffic. In this case authorized_keys needs to be called authorized_keys2.

[mjman]

Ahhah!

Apr 11 13:54:04 sshd[4993]: Authentication refused: bad ownership or modes for directory /home/----/.ssh

[AndyGreen]

You're on the $PATH to enlightenment, my son ;-)

[mjman]

doing a chmod g+r on .ssh fixed it.

Thanks for the help =).