Hello, check permissions on <user's home>/.ssh/authorized_keys. i guess issue related to permissions but i can be wrong On 10.10.2013, at 15:44, Michael Schultz <m.schultz@xxxxxx> wrote: > Hello list, > > 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). > > In /etc/ssh/sshd_config I've set: > PasswordAuthentication no > UsePAM no > > If I set a password for the users, the public key auth works without any > problems. > > Could anyone tell me what I'm missing here? > > > Thanks > Michael > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos