On Fri, 21 Feb 2020 08:17:27 -0600 Richard Shaw wrote: > It will check that you have correct permissions in ~/.ssh before copying > the public key over to the remote system. If course you'll need to leave > password auth turned on until you complete this. That's the important bit. You can leave password enabled while testing public keys and only disable it when you verify the public key setup works. At home, I have a sshd_config file that enables highly insecure access just for my local network, and requires public key for outside connections. Here's the magic bit at the end of the file: Match Address 127.0.0.1,192.168.1.* Banner /etc/nohamster.txt GSSApiAuthentication yes KerberosAuthentication no PasswordAuthentication yes KbdInteractiveAuthentication no PermitRootLogin yes _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx