hello list I have a network mounted home directory shared between all hosts on my network: [bluethundr at LCENT03:~]#df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00 140G 4.4G 128G 4% / /dev/sda1 99M 35M 60M 37% /boot tmpfs 1.6G 0 1.6G 0% /dev/shm nas.summitnjhome.com:/mnt/nas 903G 265G 566G 32% /mnt/nas nas2.summitnjhome.com:/mnt/store 1.4T 187G 1.1T 15% /mnt/store nas2.summitnjhome.com:/mnt/home 903G 47G 784G 6% /home none 1.6G 136K 1.6G 1% /var/lib/xenstored So therefore my RSA key should already be in my authorized_keys on any host. However logging into the virtual network, I always get prompted for a password. just for the heck of it, I scp'd the key over again to one of the virtual hosts: [bluethundr at LCENT03:~]#scp .ssh/id_rsa.pub virt1:~ bluethundr at virt1's password: id_rsa.pub 100% 381 0.4KB/s 00:00 ssh'd in: [bluethundr at LCENT03:~]#ssh virt1 bluethundr at virt1's password: Last login: Tue Nov 16 15:57:24 2010 from 192.168.1.46 Searched for the key on the host I just ssh'd into: [bluethundr at VIRTCENT01:~]#grep -f id_rsa.pub .ssh/authorized_keys ssh-rsa AAAAB3NzaC1yc2EAAAABI-FAKE-DATA-dgjIWxnyplIYKE5IQw9FY2+IVsYw== As you can see, it's already there.. I then checked the modes on authorized_keys: [bluethundr at VIRTCENT01:~]#ls -l .ssh/authorized_keys -rw------- 1 1001 1002 1597 Nov 15 12:02 .ssh/authorized_keys And checked that I was using the same shared network mounted home directory from the machine I just ssh'd in from: [bluethundr at VIRTCENT01:~]#df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00 9.1G 1.8G 6.9G 21% / /dev/xvda1 99M 20M 75M 21% /boot tmpfs 129M 0 129M 0% /dev/shm nas.summitnjhome.com:/mnt/nas 903G 265G 566G 32% /mnt/nas nas2.summitnjhome.com:/mnt/store 1.4T 187G 1.1T 15% /mnt/store nas2.summitnjhome.com:/mnt/home 903G 47G 784G 6% /home [bluethundr at VIRTCENT01:~]# Considering that this key is internal network only and doesn't have a passphrase set (it does not traverse internet boundaries) why on earth am I being prompted for a password whenever I ssh into this machine? thanks! -- Here's my RSA Public key: gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys 5A4873A9 Share and enjoy!!