Question
ssh login with key for user other than root
I followed the process in
https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-configure-ssh-key-based-authentication-on-a-linux-server
to set up ssh login for a user account (not root). I installed a new key pair (call it newkeypair) and executed ssh -i newkeypair user@xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx and still was asked for the user’s password. CentOS install and have installed public part of key in /home/user/.ssh/authorized_keys with proper permissions.
What am I missing?
thanks
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When this up did you turn off password authentication in your sshd_config?
Thanks. Made the change in the ssh_config file, restarted ssh and now get the following error message when attempting to ssh as user (using either the root key or the key I created for the user):
Permission denied (publickey,gssapi-keyex,gssapi-with-mic).