2008/6/12 David Rosenstrauch <darose@darose.net>:

Vitor Garcia wrote:

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Hello, All.

I'm trying to configure my ssh keys on a remote machine but something is going wrong. I've made exactly as it was explained on the Arch wiki (http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Using_SSH_Keys), but the remote machine keeps requesting me the password when I log in (I've used no passphrase so it is not supposed that I'd be prompted for the password everytime).

Does anyone have an idea of what I may have made wrong?

Cheers,

* Make sure you chmod'ed the keys to the right permissions. SSH has a security feature where it will ignore keys that are publicly visible.

* Make sure the ssh daemon on the remote machine is configured with "PubkeyAuthentication yes" and "AuthorizedKeysFile .ssh/authorized_keys" in the sshd_config

If those don't fix it, then crank up the logging level of the SSH daemon on the remote machine to see why it's rejecting the key login.

HTH,

DR

You should also check permissions on 'authorized_keys' file, chmod it to something like 600 or 644 (no write permissions for other than the owner). Cheers, -- Ramiro Blanco