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Re: SSH key authentication

On Wed, May 07, 2003 at 08:54:31PM +0100, Jon Wood wrote:
> I'm having trouble getting public key authentication to work with SSH.
> I've put my public key in ~/.ssh/authorized_keys, but it still asks me
> for my password.
> 
> The key does work to connect to the sourceforge.net servers.
> 

Check to see that PubKeyAuthentication is not set to 'no' in
/etc/ssh/sshd_config on the machine you are trying to connect to.

Also check that ~/.ssh/authorized_keys is readable by the user.

Paul
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