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Hi everyone, I haven a new Linux server but when I want to connect with SSH, I can only use my id_rsa.pub key. I tried making other .pub keys (instead of the id_rsa.pub) but it keeps asking a password when I want to use other keys. Am I missing something here?

I have tried: Editing the permission of my .ssh folder because it seems like a common problem, but it was already set to the correct permission.

Here is the code to make a key and copy it to my server:

ssh-keygen -t rsa -C "[email protected]" ssh-copy-id -i ~/.ssh/test.pub user@myLinuxServer

I can find the key on my server in the authorized_keys file so I think copying is not a problem.

I expect: that I can login without giving a password when I type:

 Ssh user@host

in the terminal, but it still asks for a password. Only when I use ssh-copy-id on the id_rsa.pub key, it will work.

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  • You can use ssh -vv user@host to see in more deail the login process, when is tried and what is not. Commented May 27, 2019 at 23:20
  • look at your ~/.ssh/config for that host Commented May 27, 2019 at 23:50
  • @linuxdev2013 I don't have ~/.ssh/config file.. only known_hosts but is the same innit? Commented May 28, 2019 at 19:35

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You have to copy you public key into ~/.ssh/authorized_keys file.

AFAIK authorized_key is not a directory.

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  • My bad, I meant authorized_keys file, not folder ... :) Commented May 28, 2019 at 19:30
  • @aaronlejeune is your problem solved? Commented May 30, 2019 at 10:30
  • yes it worked, sorry for the late answer Commented Jan 7, 2020 at 11:40

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