SSH login for normal users using authorized keys

[Pete Nesbitt]

On November 22, 2004 08:10 pm, Harry Hoffman wrote:
> Sorry, I'm a little late on this thread. But you have to login at least
> once interactively before it will no longer ask for a password, right?
>
> Pete Nesbitt wrote:
> > On November 22, 2004 06:04 am, Jithesh wrote:
> >>Hi all,
> >>
> >>I was able to create successful login for the root account from a remote
> >>client with the help of the public key and the authorized key. But when
> >>I tried to do it for a normal account it still asks for the password.
> >>
> >>Here is what I have done
> >>1. Generated the public key in the client machine.
> >>2. Copied the same into the server's normal user account's
> >>~/.ssh/authorized_keys
> >>3. Changed the permission to read only for the file authorized_keys
> >>
> >>I did the same thing for the root account and it worked but not or other
> >>users.
>
> [snip... sorry Pete :-) ]


I would think simply restarting the ssh daemon should do it so it reads the 
changes in the config about only using a key.
-- 
Pete Nesbitt, rhce