ssh pair key authentication problem

Question

I have a problem with public and private key authentication. I do this steps and then, public-key based doesn't work. 1- generate a pair of private and public key (RSA) using the following command:

Generating public/private rsa key pair.
Enter file in which to save the key (/home/rc_ss/.ssh/id_rsa): 
Created directory '/home/rc_ss/.ssh'.
Enter passphrase (empty for no passphrase): 
Enter same passphrase again: 
Your identification has been saved in /home/rc_ss/.ssh/id_rsa.
Your public key has been saved in /home/rc_ss/.ssh/id_rsa.pub.
The key fingerprint is:
ac:fd:d1:2e:e5:1e:db:87:98:77:9e:14:62:db:97:f0 rc_ss@rc_ss-network
The key's randomart image is:
+--[ RSA 2048]----+
|                 |
|                 |
|                 |
|       .         |
|        S    + . |
|       o   .o * o|
|      . . .oo+ E.|
|         ..o+++ =|
|          .o+..=.|
+-----------------+

2- copy it through network with ssh-copy-id as follows

rc_ss@rc_ss-network:~$ ssh-copy-id -i .ssh/id_rsa.pub [email protected]
The authenticity of host '192.168.2.100 (192.168.2.100)' can't be established.
ECDSA key fingerprint is 33:67:e0:02:b1:10:46:76:78:6b:1f:e2:55:9b:6a:a8.
Are you sure you want to continue connecting (yes/no)? yes
Warning: Permanently added '192.168.2.100' (ECDSA) to the list of known hosts.
[email protected]'s password: 
Now try logging into the machine, with "ssh '[email protected]'", and check in:

  ~/.ssh/authorized_keys

to make sure we haven't added extra keys that you weren't expecting.

3- then, I want to get connected to server ssh without password, and deal with following:

rc_ss@rc_ss-network:~$ ssh [email protected]
[email protected]'s password: 

Which means the password required yet. Can anybody help me? Appreciate it.

Answer 1

Assuming that the public key was correctly copied to the target server, you'll need to make sure that the SSH daemon supports passwordless login. This configuration is set in the /etc/ssh/sshd_config file, and you need to make sure the following values are set:

PermitRootLogin yes
RSAAuthentication yes
PubkeyAuthentication yes

If those values are not set, you will need to set them and then restart SSH with sudo service ssh restart in a terminal.