redemption in a blog

After a longer than desired struggle with getting sshd to accept my public key, I think a blog post is in order to remind myself not to repeat the same mistakes. Here’s how you should go about debugging your SSH public key authentication woes: Getting more debug info when connecting with your ssh client: Add [...]

sudo chown -R dick / instead of sudo chown -R dick ./ You won’t be able to su – or sudo to chown the ownerships back properly because the sudo executable needs to be owned by root. Some people should never have unfettered sudo rights… like me.