Solved Strange behaviour of SSH. Why?

[Alexandr Kirilov]

Hello all!

Setting up SSH daemon on FreeBSD and having troubles with rsa-key authentication. It's ignoring keys at all.
The sshd_config contain this lines:

PermitRootLogin no
StrictModes yes
MaxAuthTries 3
PubkeyAuthentication yes
PermitRootLogin no
PasswordAuthentication no

But when trying to access server via SSH it's asking me about password and when enter password allow me to login.
Why so?

 

[nxjoseph]

Hello. Are you getting asked for the key's password or the server's password? If it's asking for ssh key's password, then you can run ssh-agent then you will not be asked for the ssh key's password. ssh-agent alone doesn't last longer so I use security/keychain for that matter. Maybe you didn't restart sshd service so changes made to sshd_config didn't get applied.

 

[shurik]

KbdInteractiveAuthentication no

?

 

[Alexandr Kirilov]

Hello. Are you getting asked for the key's password or the server's password? If it's asking for ssh key's password, then you can run ssh-agent then you will not be asked for the ssh key's password. ssh-agent alone doesn't last longer so I use security/keychain for that matter. Maybe you didn't restart sshd service so changes made to sshd_config didn't get applied.

restarted and rebooted

 

[Alexandr Kirilov]

KbdInteractiveAuthentication no

?

When using this option replying this:

kirilov@192.168.2.12: Permission denied (publickey).

Got checked permissions and owners everything looks fine. Key is RSA key.

 

[Alexandr Kirilov]

Solution found. There were wrong permissions on ~/.ssh folder (has too wide opened) and user home folder (had very restrictive) and 'authorised_keys' file. Fixing that issue loved all troubles.