public key authentication

[Gregory Nowak]

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If you're initially logging in as a normal user, your public key
needs to be in that user's home directory, and not in root's home
directory.

Greg


On Sat, Jun 05, 2004 at 04:30:56PM -0400, Igor Gueths wrote:
> Hi all. I'm attempting to set up public key authentcation, however I think I am missing something. I generated the keypair by running ssh-keygen -b 2048 -t dsa. I then wrote the resulting 
> identity.pub file to /root/.ssh/authorized_keys, which is where I am storing the file so no other users can play with it. I then restarted sshd, and tried connecting to localhost under my user 
> account to see if it would properly authenticate. I got as far as the prompt for the passphrase of the private key. Once I entered that, I got a "permission denied message." I did make sure I 
> was entering the correct passphrase. Should I perhaps regenerate the keys, or am I forgetting something? Thanks!
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