[arch-general] SSH Keys

[David Rosenstrauch]

Vitor Garcia wrote:
> 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