I'll second what Steven says: get the other side to run the ssh daemon
manually, and tell you exactly why it is rejecting the key.

I've had the same experience: bad file or directory
permissions on the remote side. The ssh daemon is
fussier than Larrry Kilgallen about this :-)

HTH,

Carl

On 8/17/07, Steven M. Schweda wrote:
> > However, trying to get into HP-UX:
> > [...]
>
> Well, _my_ problem was bad permissions on my HP-UX "~/.ssh"
> directory. Knowing nothing, I killed the sshd, ran it manually with
> debug ("/usr/sbin/sshd -ddd"), and saw the permissions complaint in the
> output. (umask = 0 is often not good. Who sets this stuff?) A real
> HP-UX administrator would probably know enough to look in
> /var/adm/syslog/syslog.log for stuff like this:
>
> Aug 17 15:36:14 dy sshd[4593]: Authentication refused: bad ownership or
> modes for directory /home/sms/.ssh
>
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