[lug] stupid ssh config question

[Lee Woodworth]

In your original post you said "moved id_rsa.pub to authorized_keys".
Was that a literal file move or a copy/append -- does id_rsa.pub still exist?

Have you tried ssh -v .... from the client side to get more info about
the connection process?

On 06/15/2017 10:24 AM, Steven A Hart wrote:
> Might have just found the problem.  I had PasswordAuthentication set to
> no.  Like I said, stupid mistake.
>
> I know setting things up this way is not great, but since this is not open
> to the outside world, I think it's ok for now.
>
> Thanks for the help everyone.  Sorry to be a bother.
>
> Steve
>
> On Thu, Jun 15, 2017 at 10:17 AM, Steven A Hart <steven.hart at colorado.edu>
> wrote:
>
>> Stephen, agreed.
>>
>> David, id_rsa is located in /root/.ssh/
>>
>> On Thu, Jun 15, 2017 at 10:15 AM, david <dafr at dafr.us> wrote:
>>
>>> On 06/15/2017 09:02 AM, Steven A Hart wrote:
>>>
>>> So on the server I generated the keys resulting in id_rsa and id_rsa.pub
>>>> being created.  I moved  id_rsa.pub to authorized_keys and copied that
>>>> over to the root account on the client in /root/.ssh.  Sure enough, the
>>>> ssh works from server to client without password.
>>>>
>>>> The problem now is that when I ssh from anywhere to the server as either
>>>> root or my admin account, I get:
>>>>
>>>> Permission denied (publickey).
>>>>
>>>> I know I made a stupid mistake somewhere, I just need someone to point
>>>> and say "look there stupid!"
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Have you copied id_rsa to the appropriate home account on the originating
>>> server? Without that, I would expect the error you present above.
>>>
>>> dafr
>>>
>>>
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>>
>> --
>> Steve Hart
>> Systems Administrator
>> Colorado Center for Astrodynamics Research
>> University of Colorado Boulder
>> Steven.Hart at colorado.edu
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