Vpn and ssh.

[Kerry Hoath]

If you are behind a masquerading machine or your ssh
is not setuid root it can't get a port <1023 and the default
is to refuse rsa authentication if ssh binds
to a non-priverlaged port.
On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 10:47:21PM -0400, Tommy Moore wrote:
> Hi guys. I'm trying to setup a vpn between two boxes and for some
> reason I can't get ssh to let me do the authorization with the root
> account with using keys.
> Even when I put my public host key in the authorized_keys list in .ssh
> of root's home directory it still doesn't let me in.
> If I transfer my user account key to the same machine and try it it
> does work. I don't get it. I have the root login option turned on.
> Anyone know why this won't work? Red Hat 7.1 on both client and server
> with default /etc/ssh/sshd_cofnig files on both.
> 
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