[xubuntu-users] rsync using ssh paired keys

[Mike Kupfer]

Bill wrote:

> One thing I did notice is a line after
> successful login using the password which says "Remote: Ignored
> authorized keys: bad ownership or modes for directory
> /home/bill". Permissions are all what I have been told they should be
> (700 on .ssh and 600 on the id_rsa.pub and authorized_keys files). I
> do not know what "bad ownership or modes" means. 

The term "modes" refers to the permissions settings (also known as the
mode bits).

So the message means that either your home directory is owned by someone
other than you (unlikely), or that it's writable by someone other than
you.  IIRC, the ssh server is making sure that nobody else can fiddle
with your authorized_keys, so it checks the permissions of all the
directories between your .ssh directory and /.  Make sure your home
directory is not 775 or 777 (those are the 2 most likely bad settings).

mike