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ric3125 wrote:
No I cant use the private keys. I can still log in with a password. I never closed my first putty session. So I changed PasswordAuthentication back when it did not work.

You're using the root id right? Can you do a pwd from the .ssh directory where you created the authorized_keys file?

The root id needs to have it's own home directory (i.e. /root). There are only 2 other things I can think of that may cause the ReadyNAS to refuse your private keys:
1) The root id has a home directory in / instead of /root and you created the .ssh directory in /
If this is the case you have to edit your /etc/passwd file to change root's home directory. It's the 2nd to the last field

root:*******:0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash

Change it to /root like in the example above then save it. Create the /root directory and move the .ssh directory to /root

root@Matthew~# mkdir /root
root@Matthew~# mv .ssh /root

Then try to log in with your private keys again

OR

2) The root id has it's own home directory (i.e. root) but is writable by other users. Make sure /root is writable only by the root id (chmod 700 or chmod 755)

root@Matthew/# ls -ld /root
drwx------    5 root     root         4096 May 30 01:11 /root
root@Matthew/#

Let me know how it goes and I'll try to reply back to you ASAP. Cheers!