SSH login for normal users using authorized keys

[Harry Hoffman]

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 :-) ]