How to make public authentication work in SSH

Emerson Takahashi — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 17:14:28 +0000

After you set up the public key authentication in any Unix server, if it keeps asking for your password even after you put your public key in the ~/.ssh/authorized_keys file you need to check the file permissions.

To fix this problem, check if the owner and the file permission is set right on:
Home directory (700)
.ssh directory (700)
authorized_keys file (600)

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How to make public authentication work in SSH