Oh dear, ladies and gentlemen,
I'm sorry to waste your time.
The permissions on ~/.ssh were 700. As soon as I changed them to 755, it all
works wonderfully!
Nick Urbanik wrote:
> Dear folks,
>
> I cannot slogin or ssh to machines without typing a password or
> passphrase even though I have carefully put my public key
> /home/nicku/.ssh/id_dsa.pub into the file
> /home/nicku/.ssh/authorized_keys2 on the remote machine.
> $slogin -v remote
> ....
> debug: try pubkey: /home/nicku/.ssh/id_dsa
> debug: PEM_read_bio_DSAPrivateKey failed
> debug: read DSA private key done
> Enter passphrase for DSA key '/home/nicku/.ssh/id_dsa':
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Hong Kong Institute of Vocational Education (Tsing Yi)
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