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SSH Not Accepting Public Key

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Mar 15, 202656110 views
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When setting up ssh keys between two machines, the authentication only works one way. One server doesn't accept the public key of the other when trying to connect. Any ideas? Here's the verbose output. EDIT: If it matters, this is for

Error Output

debug1: Reading configuration data /usr/local/etc/ssh_config
debug1: Rhosts Authentication disabled, originating port will not be trusted.
debug1: Co…

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Fix for: SSH Not Accepting Public Key

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I've just had a case where SELinux prevented sshd from reading the /root/.ssh/authorized_keys file. /var/log/messages will show you that the sshd process was denied access for read operation on the authorized_keys file. After I ran , SSH with the pu…

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