Solved: SSH Athentification with public key

["Gerd Müller" <gerd.bomber.mueller@web.de>]

Hello,

thank you very much for all the helpful hints! Changing permissions of 
/$HOME/.ssh to 700 solved the problem (it was 770)!

Gerd



<gerd.bomber.mueller@web.de> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> i want to update hourly a remote mirror-server with rsync via ssh. In 
> order to enable the file-server to establish a ssh-session without 
> password prompt, i created on file-server a keypair with ssh-keygen -t 
> rsa (empty passphrase) and copied the public key (id_rsa.pub) to the 
> /root/.ssh/authorized_keys File (on mirror-server). This file didn't 
> exist before.
> When establishing a ssh-sesssion with root@servername, the password 
> request occurs nontheless!
> (with root's password i am able to establish the connection).
> Can anybody tell me what i did wrong? I am running RedHat 7.3 on both 
> machines.
>
> Gerd
>
>
>
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