ssh public key authentication

[Beau J. Bechdol]

Have you changed the sshd_config file to reflect the use of PublicKey Auth?

-Beau


On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 9:10 AM, Luca Ferrari <fluca1978 at infinito.it> wrote:

> Hi,
> I'd like a user to ssh another host (both ubuntu 8.1) without being
> prompted
> for a password, so I copied the rsa (and also dsa) public keys to the
> target
> host, added these keys to the authorized_keys file but when I do ssh I'm
> prompted for a password, and I don't understand why. Here's an excerpet of
> the
> debug messages of the ssh client:
>
> debug1: Next authentication method: publickey
> debug1: Trying private key: /var/backups/.ssh/identity
> debug3: no such identity: /var/backups/.ssh/identity
> debug1: Offering public key: /var/backups/.ssh/id_rsa
> debug3: send_pubkey_test
> debug2: we sent a publickey packet, wait for reply
> debug1: Authentications that can continue: publickey,password
> debug1: Offering public key: /var/backups/.ssh/id_dsa
> debug3: send_pubkey_test
> debug2: we sent a publickey packet, wait for reply
> debug1: Authentications that can continue: publickey,password
> debug2: we did not send a packet, disable method
> debug3: authmethod_lookup password
> debug3: remaining preferred: ,password
> debug3: authmethod_is_enabled password
>
>
> anyone has an idea of what the problem could be?
>
> Thanks,
> Luca
>
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