On 05/09/2014 03:34 PM, Dan Bikle wrote: > Dear List, > > I cannot get public ssh keys to work in a fresh install of centos6.5 [snip] > Steps to reproduce this bug: [snip] > do this: > > cat ~dan/.ssh/id_rsa.pub > ~dan/.ssh/authorized_keys I think you're missing: chmod 600 ~dan/.ssh/authorized_keys Without it, sshd won't use the authorized_keys file if it's readable by other users. (I think that's related to "StrictMode"; consult sshd man page) -Greg > > try: > > ssh dan at localhost > > It should log me in. > > Instead it prompts for password. > > I've walked through this type of scenario many times over the past few > years and it has always worked. > > Currently it works well on ubuntu 12.04. > > I think something in centos6 might be broken? > > Perhaps there is a documented step somewhere which has been added to > fresh centos installs which I missed? > > Dan > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos