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I have Raspbmc installed and I'm trying to get passwordless ssh working. I've copied over my public key, put is in ~/.ssh/authorized_keys2, and set the permissions to 600. However, I'm still getting prompted for my password. Anybody know what's up?

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Did you follow a specific tutorial? Try this, just do it all again. It should work. Did you run into any errors along the way? debian-administration.org/articles/152. – Impulss Jan 22 at 3:58
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Try running ssh with the one fo the flag -v, -vv, or -vvv (increased verbosity) to see more of what is going on. – Frepa Jan 22 at 10:14

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I've used ssh-copy-id without problems. Try this

ssh-copy-id pi@<your raspberrypi IP>

Then provide your actual password, and next time you will be able to login without password.

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I was manually putting my public key in authorized_keys2. When I ran this, it put it in my authorized_keys file. It seems that for what ever reason raspbmc doesn't use authorized_keys2. Perhaps someone with more authority on the subject might be able to explain why. – Kurtis Nusbaum Jan 22 at 20:16
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So according this: itefix.no/i2/content/authorizedkeys-vs-authorizedkeys2 newer versions of ssh just use authorized_keys and don't distinguish between authorized_keys and authorized_keys2. I guess raspbmc uses said newer version of ssh? – Kurtis Nusbaum Jan 22 at 20:28
Raspbmc use dropbear as ssh server and client, and it is version 2 only [matt.ucc.asn.au/dropbear/dropbear.html]. – Pipe Jan 24 at 8:36
Well then it all makes sense. Thanks for clearing it up :) – Kurtis Nusbaum Jan 24 at 23:56
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There is some general troubleshooting you can do:

Local machine:

  • Make sure permissions on the .ssh folder is 0700. chmod 0700 ~/.ssh
  • Make sure permissions on the private key are 0600. chmod 0600 ~/.ssh/id_rsa (or whatever your private key filename is)
  • Make sure permissions on the public key is 0644. chmod 0644 ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub (or whatever your public key filename is)
  • have you included the (private) key in your ssh-agent? ssh-add -l should show it.
  • Is it using the key? connect with ssh -v user@host to look for key usage, like this: debug1: Authentication succeeded (publickey).

Note you can connect without adding the key to your agent: ssh -v -i ~/.ssh/id_rsa user@host

On the RaspberryPI:

  • Make sure permissions on the .ssh folder is 0700. chmod 0700 ~/.ssh
  • Make sure the permissions on authorized_keys is 0644. chmod 0644 ~/.ssh/authorized_keys.
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