SSH keys and login without password - is it possible?

Posted April 15th, 2020 1310 0

Hello, may I connect to the seedbox with SSH keys and no password? I've managed to generate the keys and copy the public one in the folder .ssh/authorized_keys/, but when I try to login from my machine it keeps asking for the password. Any idea?

angoikon

Staff

almost 5 years

Accept Answer

Hello!
"authorizedkeys" is a file not a directory, therefore you don't copy the public key (as a file) anywhere, you just add the contents of the public key file into "~/.ssh/authorizedkeys"

mattia1010

almost 5 years

Accept Answer

Thank you so much! I misread the "Copy and paste your idrsa.pub file into the file", and I thought that the right thing to do was to paste the idrsa file! :p.
Now it works like a charm! :)

SSH keys and login without password - is it possible?

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