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2010-01-12 , 14:42
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My user password is strong and I checked the sshd config and I'm pretty sure root login was disabled by default so I don't think its that big of a deal. I might put a key on it just in case but that might be annoying if I want to get to it from someone elses PC. You could also change the default port ..
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2010-01-12 , 14:49
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Originally Posted by cipper View Post
i switced to user (su user) and then copied, thus no need to modify owner.
hm, then it should work. the next step i'd suggest would be to enable logging to get more info about what's wrong. this involves installing additional software, i've described how to do that here.

I don't have a private key file on n900, is it required? for root is not!
it's required if you want to use key authentication in the other direction, i.e. to automatically log into a remote machine without having to type it's password on the N900.
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2010-01-12 , 15:04
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Originally Posted by SubCore View Post
hm, then it should work. the next step i'd suggest would be to enable logging to get more info about what's wrong. this involves installing additional software, i've described how to do that here.



it's required if you want to use key authentication in the other direction, i.e. to automatically log into a remote machine without having to type it's password on the N900.
indeed, is not required in this case. BTW, could setting a password for 'user' affect other maemo functionality?
 
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2010-01-12 , 15:07
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Originally Posted by cipper View Post
BTW, could setting a password for 'user' affect other maemo functionality?
as i said before, that might be the case, but i'm not aware of any actual issue.
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2010-01-12 , 15:08
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could setting a password for 'user' affect other maemo functionality?
Don't know, that's why I suggested not fscking about with it in the first place...
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2010-01-12 , 15:34
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SOLVED! The problem was about permissions of the .ssh directory: with 'chmod go-w .ssh' now works!

thank you guys!
 

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2010-01-12 , 17:12
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Jebba has a section on using the user account in his part of the Maemo wiki. It works.
 
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