Execution of the command of ssh with open/root/.ssh/id_dsa failed error: Permission denied

Question

Working it agrees http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/ru/library/l-hadoop-1/ at first I entered into the user of hadoop by means of a command

root@one: /volumes# su hadoop

The invitation was as a result displayed

root@one: /volumes#

and to check I entered into the user of hadoop executed the whoami command, on what gave out me hadoop. Then I tried to execute

root@one: /volumes# ssh-keygen -t dsa -P '' -f ~/.ssh/id_dsa

therefore I received the following messages

Generating public/private dsa key pair.
open /root/.ssh/id_dsa failed: Permission denied.
Saving the key failed: /root/.ssh/id_dsa

Нow to eliminate this error?

Answer 1

Firstly change path to your home directory that is

root@one: /volumes# cd ~

then generate the dsa key using the below command and press enter for the inputs(passphrase) when asked.

root@one: ~# ssh-keygen -t dsa

Now the file and directory containing the key will be created.

~/.ssh/id_dsa

Answer 2

You are running as user hadoop, but the home directory still seems to be /root.

Try su -l hadoop instead to do a complete login.

Answer 3

chmod 700 ~/.ssh --recursive

will do the job