ssh public key authentication

[Beau J. Bechdol]

Maybe this will help a bit more?

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SSHHowto#Public%20key%20authentication

-Beau


On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 9:36 AM, Beau J. Bechdol <bbechdol at gmail.com> wrote:

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