It's RedHat, which means you have to tweak the sshd_config file, to turn off Kerberos authentication. When you turn that off, key-based authentication works perfectly. Specifically, you want to set:
GSSAPIAuthentication off On Wed, Jul 1, 2015 at 4:56 PM, Andrew Farnsworth <[email protected]> wrote: > Evening everyone, > I'm struggling with SSH keys again. I generated a key pair and put the > public key on the server and the private key on my laptop. I configured > Putty to use the private key file and have copied the public key to the > ~/.ssh/authorized_keys and ~/.ssh/authorized_keys2 file, set the permissions > to 700 and 600 on the .ssh and authorized_keys/keys2 files. I still get a > "server refused our key" message when trying to login and it then prompts > for password. > > note: I tried generating keys using the putty keygen and using the keygen on > the linux server. > > OS is RHEL 6.6 > > Any idea where I am going wrong? > > Andy > > -- > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NLUG" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NLUG" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- Tilghman -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
