Answer by Daniel for ssh never ask for a password
Another cause I found. I had:Host * PreferredAuthentications publickeyin ~/.ssh/config (copied from another user, thinking it was "preference"). Actually PreferredAuthentications specifies "allowed"...
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In my experience, I found that a parameter was commented out in /etc/pam.d/sshd , as below.# diff cwe-pam-sshd /etc/pam.d/sshd3c3< auth include password-auth---> #auth include password-auth
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Most probably you have more than one identityfile lines on your .ssh/config file.Even if you have identityfile under host configuration, it is applied globally. What that means is that ssh tries every...
View ArticleAnswer by Klaus-Dieter Warzecha for ssh never ask for a password
Try to log in with Public Key Authentification disabled, using ssh -o PubkeyAuthentication=no root@newserver
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Your local ssh shouldn't be asking you for a password, the ssh server on the other end should. It's likely that the server is set up to not accept password authentication. Mine wouldn't ask you for a...
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Somehow my SSH never wants to ask me for a password.So I setup a VPS on some random server somewhere in the world and I want to connect to it with ssh.I can setup a key, but when I do this:ssh -l...
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