[lug] stupid ssh config question

[Alan Robertson]

Normally root is disabled to come in by SSH. I forget the option name
but it's something like allow root.--
  Alan Robertson
  alanr at unix.sh



On Thu, Jun 15, 2017, at 10:02 AM, Steven A Hart wrote:
> I feel stupid even asking this but I have not had enough coffee yet
> and my brain does not want to see where I screwed up.> 
> Simle setup:  one server, one client.  I wanted to set it so that the
> root user on the server can ssh to the client root user without a
> password required.> 
> 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!"> 
> Cheers
> 
> Steve
> 
> -- 
> Steve Hart
>  Systems Administrator
>  Colorado Center for Astrodynamics Research
>  University of Colorado Boulder
> Steven.Hart at colorado.edu
>  (303)492-8109
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