ssh not offering public key

Question

Trying to ssh on windows server using a public key authentication, but it is not recognizing the public key.

Kept the public key in .ssh/authorized_keys with proper permission.

When running in verbose mode getting below message:

debug1: Authentications that can continue: publickey,password,keyboard-interactive
debug1: Next authentication method: publickey
debug1: Trying private key: C:\Users\$amku001\.ssh/id_rsa
debug1: Trying private key: C:\Users\$amku001\.ssh/id_dsa
debug1: Trying private key: C:\Users\$amku001\.ssh/id_ecdsa
debug1: Trying private key: C:\Users\$amku001\.ssh/id_ed25519
debug1: Next authentication method: keyboard-interactive
debug1: Authentications that can continue: publickey,password,keyboard-interactive

As can be seen it is not even offering the public RSA key. Also it is trying for private keys which doesn't exists.

Answer 1

It is possible that you didn't place the private key in your machine running the client-ssh.

Please confirm that you perform all the below instructions.

In order to perform ssh login using private/public key you should:

• Create key pair (e.g. using instructions from here)

Client side:

• Create .ssh folder in your home dir
• Place the private key in .ssh folder
  • name it id_rsa

Server side:

• Create .ssh folder in your home dir
• add the content of the public key to file .ssh/authorized_keys

File permissions:

• private key should be accessed only to you
• public key might be read by others (but not write-able by others)
• .ssh folder should be accessed only by you