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Public/private key asks password when made without

Hello,

I made public/private keypair as follow :

Code:

[root@s2 ~]# ssh-keygen -t rsa -b 2048 -f /home/syncR2/rkey



Generating public/private rsa key pair.



Enter passphrase (empty for no passphrase): 

[enter]

Enter same passphrase again: 

[enter]

Your identification has been saved in /home/syncR2/rkey.



Your public key has been saved in /home/syncR2/rkey.pub.



The key fingerprint is:



<snip>

When I want to ssh, it asks :

Quote:

Enter passphrase for key '/home/syncR2/rkey':

I don't want it to ask that. What did I do wrong ? How can I fix it ?

Sorry, seemed to be a problem of rights.

The private key /home/syncR2/rkey had root:root permissions.

Changed it to syncR2:syncR2 and now it works.