ssh fails silently on key authentication

Jan 20
2010

If it happens that only root (or no one) can use key authentication, most probably the permissions are wrong. Check the following permissions:

ls -ld ~/.ssh | awk '{print $1}'
# should return drwx------
# otherwise: chmod 0700 ~/.ssh

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