On 10 Oct 2013 14:45, "Michael Schultz" <m.schultz@xxxxxx> wrote: > on a CentOS 6.4 machine I'm creating accounts with empty passwords. Each > user's public key is located in <user's home>/.ssh/authorized_keys. > > When trying to ssh into that machine, following error message is displayed: > Permission denied (publickey). > Check /var/log/secure on the server for more details... Check the permissions on the file and .ssh directory... Needs to be owned by the user and 600 on the file... This is a very common issue... Also check context on the file and folder if selinux is enabled. _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos