SSH question

[David Mummery]

I'm trying to setup password-less SSH login using public/private keypair but am failing. All the documentation tells me to do the same thing but it does not work:

On my remote machine, as root, I run:

ssh-keygen -t rsa

- Enter and confirm passphrase

cp /root/.ssh/i_rsa.pub /root/.ssh/authorised_keys

chmod 644 /root/.ssh/authorised_keys

I then copy authorised_keys to the machine I want to connect from, as root, and put it into /root/.ssh/authorised_keys

I then chmod 644 this file.

Despite this, when I run 'ssh root at remote_host', as root, I am still asked for remote host's root password. I cannot see what I am doing wrong(!)

Thanks in advance.

David Mummery
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