SSH passwordless login - debug2: we did not send a packet, disable method

When managing a lot of server it's quite convenient to set up SSH to login without asking for a password. The method consists of just 4 simepl steps.




  1. generate a public and a private key pair
    ssh-keygen -f keysfile
  2. upload the public key to the server in your home folders "~/.ssh" directory (create it if it's not there)
    keysfile.pub to remotehost/~/.ssh folder
  3. dump that key to the accepted keys (in the same .ssh folder)
    cat keysfile.pub > authorized_keys
  4. login to the server using the private key from your client
    ssh -i keysfile username@remotehost
If something goes wrong, try running SSH with debug messages:
ssh -i keysfile username@remotehost -vv

If you see the following error message:
debug2: we did not send a packet, disable method
it's most probably because the server cannot access the authorized_keys file. Some howtos just add your keyfile's name to authorized_keys but that failed for me all the time. Dumping the public key to the file solved this problem.

Comments

  1. thanks! this help me to solve my problem...

    $ sudo chmod 700 ~/.ssh
    $ sudo chmod 600 ~/.ssh/*

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  2. setting permissions helped me:

    sudo chown -R `whoami` ~

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  3. check your sever log file.
    one problem occurred to me is my home directory has write permission for the group.
    Removing that will solve the problem.

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    1. Thankfully this kind of information gets stored online and findable by search engines ;-)

      Thanks for sharing (obviously your tips really helped me)!

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