Use an ed25519 key instead of the obsolete rsa key. Chances are the sshd server is refusing to work with the obsolete key. If you showed the actual ssh -v output, people would if that is the case.
On Oct 08 19:44:36, my2...@has.im wrote: > Hello, > > While moving my stuff online I decided that it was the time to allow > more machines to login to my server. > > Indeed I have my usual old Mac that merits a chance to login to my cloud > server too.. ;) > > I went to my Mac (SSH -V: OpenSSH 6.9p1 LibreSSL 2.1.8) and launched > ssh-keygen produced for my my user a nice RSA key. I grabbed it and I > went on my > cloud server (SSH -V: OpenSSH 9.2p1 OpenSSL 3.0.9) and appended it in > my .ssh/authorized_keys. > > SSHD user authentication by password is disabled on the cloud server.. > > I rebooted the Mac and restarted SSH on the cloud server.. but > the Mac SSH continues to ask to me to login with the root password > instead to ask the RSA file password to access its public key. > >From the man I see that asking the root password is the last chance > given to the user to login if anything goes wrong.. > > Is there any chance to make Mac SSH login works by key or I can give it > up? > > Thanks! > > -- Daniele Bonini > >
