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I am trying to setup password-less login into my localhost because it's required for a tutorial. I went through the normal steps of generating an rsa key and appending the public key to authorized_keys but I am still prompted for a password. I've also enabled RSAAuthentication and PubKeyAuthentication in /etc/ssh_config. Following other suggestions I've seen, I tried:

chmod go-w ~/
chmod 700 ~/.ssh
chmod 600 ~/.ssh/authorized_keys

But the problem persists.

Here is the output from ssh -v localhost:

(tutorial)bnels21-2:tutorial bnels21$ ssh -v localhost
OpenSSH_5.9p1, OpenSSL 0.9.8r 8 Feb 2011
debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh_config
debug1: /etc/ssh_config line 20: Applying options for *
debug1: Connecting to localhost [::1] port 22.
debug1: Connection established.
debug1: identity file /Users/bnels21/.ssh/id_rsa type 1
debug1: identity file /Users/bnels21/.ssh/id_rsa-cert type -1
debug1: identity file /Users/bnels21/.ssh/id_dsa type -1
debug1: identity file /Users/bnels21/.ssh/id_dsa-cert type -1
debug1: Remote protocol version 2.0, remote software version OpenSSH_5.9
debug1: match: OpenSSH_5.9 pat OpenSSH*
debug1: Enabling compatibility mode for protocol 2.0
debug1: Local version string SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_5.9
debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEXINIT sent
debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEXINIT received
debug1: kex: server->client aes128-ctr hmac-md5 none
debug1: kex: client->server aes128-ctr hmac-md5 none
debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEX_DH_GEX_REQUEST(1024<1024<8192) sent
debug1: expecting SSH2_MSG_KEX_DH_GEX_GROUP
debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEX_DH_GEX_INIT sent
debug1: expecting SSH2_MSG_KEX_DH_GEX_REPLY
debug1: Server host key: RSA 1c:31:0e:56:93:45:dc:f0:77:6c:bd:90:27:3b:c6:43
debug1: Host 'localhost' is known and matches the RSA host key.
debug1: Found key in /Users/bnels21/.ssh/known_hosts:11
debug1: ssh_rsa_verify: signature correct
debug1: SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS sent
debug1: expecting SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS
debug1: SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS received
debug1: Roaming not allowed by server
debug1: SSH2_MSG_SERVICE_REQUEST sent
debug1: SSH2_MSG_SERVICE_ACCEPT received
debug1: Authentications that can continue: publickey,keyboard-interactive
debug1: Next authentication method: publickey
debug1: Offering RSA public key: /Users/bnels21/.ssh/id_rsa
debug1: Authentications that can continue: publickey,keyboard-interactive
debug1: Offering RSA public key: id_rsa3
debug1: Authentications that can continue: publickey,keyboard-interactive
debug1: Trying private key: /Users/bnels21/.ssh/id_dsa
debug1: Next authentication method: keyboard-interactive
Password:

Any suggestions? I'm running OSX 10.8.

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You need to configure sshd, The d stands for daemon. A daemon is a service.

Configuring ssh is only configuring the client.

Look through the sshd_config file and set PasswordAuthentication no.

On osx file is at:

/private/etc/sshd_config

Restarting sshd:

launchctl stop com.openssh.sshd
launchctl start com.openssh.sshd
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  • 'PasswordAuthentication' was already set to 'no', but I get 'launchctl stop error: No such process' and 'launchctl start error: No such process' when I try to restart sshd.
    – Brad
    Dec 5, 2012 at 22:30

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