[K12OSN] how to set up passwordless ssh access

[James P. Kinney III]

On Fri, 2007-06-15 at 23:06 -0400, Jim McQuillan wrote:
> check the permissions on the .ssh directory, and the authorized_keys file.
> 
> .ssh should be 0700  ('drwx------') and owner/group must be correct for 
> that user.
> 
> authorized_keys should be 0644 ('-rw-r--r--'), and again owner/group 
> must be for that user.

And the /etc/ssh/sshd.conf must be edited to allow use of RSA keys.

find these lines:

#RSAAuthentication yes
#PubkeyAuthentication yes
#AuthorizedKeysFile     .ssh/authorized_keys

and uncomment them and restart sshd 
> 
> Jim McQuillan
> jam at Ltsp.org
> 
> 
> Krsnendu dasa wrote:
> > I have run ssh-keygen on my home Ubuntu computer.
> > Then I pasted the contents of id_rsa.pub into ~/.ssh/authorized_keys
> > on the K12LTSP server.
> > 
> > When I ssh in it still prompts me for my password.
> > 
> > What else do have have to do so I don't have to enter my password
> > every time I ssh in?
> > 
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