Comments on: How to SSH without password

By: vineet

vineet — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 15:10:34 +0000

What do you mean by “system is hardened”?

By: ming

ming — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 14:53:54 +0000

If the system is hardened, will this still work?

By: vineet

vineet — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 13:37:24 +0000

Thanks for the comment. Yes, I meant “authorized_keys” and not “.authorized_keys?”

By: Steven

Steven — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 00:58:05 +0000

Thanks for posting this. It’s a very clear and concise tutorial.

In “Create a .ssh directory on the remote machine and create a .authorized_keys file in that directory. You need to copy the entire contents of your local machine’s ‘id_rsa.pub’ and paste it in the .authorized_keys file on the remote server.” and “Important: Make sure you have the right permissions for .ssh directory and .authorized_keys file, as shown in chmod command above otherwise SSH will not honor your authorized_keys.”…did you mean to say “authorized_keys” and not “.authorized_keys?”

By: Luan

Luan — Sun, 08 Aug 2010 03:08:47 +0000

Thanks Vineet,

It works for me!

By: Tom Rooker

Tom Rooker — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 00:57:48 +0000

Works as advertise. Nice job.

By: Chris

Chris — Sun, 02 May 2010 03:29:24 +0000

Interesting, I have never ever been able to get this to work. No matter what I change the permissions to, or if I use rsa, or dsa. Forgive me for asking but does this not also depend on the the sshd config file on the server being set correctly, otherwise I don’t understand how it would work.

By: YopKK

YopKK — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 02:02:10 +0000

I was google on how to setting the SSH without key-in password. At last your tutorial gave successfully on my SSH testing. Thanks so much

By: Dan

Dan — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 22:47:03 +0000

This was exactly my problem too ->

Basically no errors but always prompted for the password.
Meanwhile (actually after 2 days of hitting my head on the wall) I have someone fixed this, I quote him: “The main fault was the home too open …. Rwxrwxrwx for home and for .ssh is considered tampered home and ssh will refuse to load .ssh/* files”

I just chmod 755 root and it finally worked.

By: Moises Lindo

Moises Lindo — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 22:24:02 +0000

you saved my life, thanks a lot from Peru.