Problem with ssh and authorized_keys...
 

I generated private and public rsa keys and installed my public rsa key on several machines in the .ssh/authorized_keys file. Everything works fine I can ssh to these machines without a pass word, except in on case. There is one account that still asks me for a password when I ssh to it. I have went through the steps of installing my public key several times but to no avail. Is there something I'm missing.

Thanks,

Kirk

Check the logs on both machines, usually in /var/log/secure. You should get some idea of why the key authentication isn't working.

Is it asking for your account password or your key passphrase? Some servers can be configured to require both the public/private keypair and the key's passphrase. Or it may be an order-of-authentication type of thing; for some (configuration) reason, password comes before keypair.

Thank you. It turned out to be the users home directory permissions.

Kirk

It turned out to be the users home directory permissions. Thanks,

Kirk

Great! I was going to suggest that, because that is a common mistake.