Need Help with SSH Key Authentication

[srini_v]

Hello All

I am a newbie to FreeNAS, sorry for the basic question.
I have generated a SSH Key pair using puttygen and pasted the PUBLIC key accounts>user in the "ssh public key" box.
I try to log in using putty and it prompts me to enter "login as:"
when i type in the username to whom i entered the public key i get an error message "server refused our key" in the putty terminal and an error message box saying "Disconnected : no support authentication methods available(server sent:public key)".
I dont understand where i am going wrong.
Any help would be greatly appretiated.
Thank you

 

[danb35]

The most common cause I've seen for problems with SSH public key auth is incorrect permissions on the user's .ssh directory and/or the .ssh/authorized_keys file. Is the user's home directory on a dataset with Windows permissions?

 

[srini_v]

Thank you for your reply. I looked at the permissions on the .ssh directory and changed it . It works fine now.
To answer your question- no I have given it UNIX permission.

Again, thank you for pointing me to the problem. Much appreciated .

 

[tbrezniak]

The most common cause I've seen for problems with SSH public key auth is incorrect permissions on the user's .ssh directory and/or the .ssh/authorized_keys file. Is the user's home directory on a dataset with Windows permissions?

danb35 How do you check the permissions on the user's .ssh directory and the .ssh/ autthorized_keys file? I am currently having the same problem as srini_v.