On 27/01/2011, at 7:45 PM, Always Learning wrote:

> Hallo,
> 
> I wanted to avoid typing-in my password every occasion I remotely
> logged-on to a server.
> 
> I created my SSH keys and copied the public part to the server and
> renamed it authorized_keys.


> ---------------------------------------------
> 
> server /root/.ssh
> 
> id_rsa.authorized_keys  -rw--------
> 
> --------------------------------------------

Your ~/.ssh/authorized_keys needs to be readable by sshd, your permissions on 
it are too restrictive (typically, this should be 0644)

Also, it should be named authorized_keys, not id_rsa.authorized_keys

PS. Coming from a background in other distributions, I find it disturbing that 
Centos ships with allow_root_login defaulting to yes. If you really need this, 
ensure that you also restrict access from where people can log in, consider 
employing dynamic banning, and harden your sshd_config (which, oddly enough, 
you didn't post).

PPS. When diagnosing such faults, it can be useful to run the sshd (ie. the 
server process) in debugging mode, although this would generally require the 
server to be temporarily disabled so it can be started in debugging mode.
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