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I have an RSA public/private keypair on my laptop; on a remote machine I have two accounts A and B which each have the public key in /home/{A,B}/.ssh/authorized_keys. With the private key loaded in ssh-agent on my laptop, I can ssh to A@remote without a password, but B@remote prompts for a password.

I have no ~/.ssh/ssh_config on my laptop. User A has no password yet; B does. Switching /etc/ssh/ssdh_config to "PasswordAuthentication no" just results in "ssh publickey denied" for user B.

The server is on Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic, with OpenSSH_5.1p1 Debian-6ubuntu2, OpenSSL 0.9.8g 19 Oct 2007. Laptop is Ubuntu 10.04 with OpenSSH_5.3p1.

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What are the permissions and ownership of the authorized_keys files, and of their parent directories? Does sudo sshd -rddp 222 on the remote machine show anything? (Connect to port 222.) – grawity Feb 2 '11 at 20:38
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It turned out the broken user's $HOME/.ssh folder had the "write" permission enabled for group. chmod go-rwx $HOME/.ssh fixed the issue.

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