2008/6/12 David Rosenstrauch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > 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 > > 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
