Unable to make a transparent connection from non root user

Question

Hi
I am trying to make a transparent connection from a non-root user and I am having permission denied when trying to generate ssh keys, as per below:
$ ssh-keygen -t rsa
Generating public/private rsa key pair.
Enter file in which to save the key (/global/xnode/taprap/.ssh/id_rsa):
Enter passphrase (empty for no passphrase):
Enter same passphrase again:
open /global/xnode/taprap/.ssh/id_rsa failed: Permission denied.
Saving the key failed: /global/xnode/taprap/.ssh/id_rsa.
Its working fine as root user, but not for any other user.
Please can you help
FR

Answer 1

Hi
for /global/xnode/taprap I have:
drwxrwxrwx 35 taprap other 59904 Sep 30 10:35 taprap
and for the .ssh
ls -al .ssh
total 122
drwx------ 2 105 other 512 Jan 27 2009 .
drwxrwxrwx 35 taprap other 59904 Sep 30 10:45 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 105 other 440 May 3 2010 known_hosts
ls -al /.ssh/id_rsa
-rw------- 1 root root 883 Mar 15 2011 /.ssh/id_rsa