[Klug-general] Problem getting ssh to use PublicKeyAuthentication :-(

[Fish]

2009/5/9 Ritchie Fraser <ritchie at rpfraser.uklinux.net>:
> Hi All,
>
> I am trying to get "password less" public key pair authentication to work
> between my laptop and my desktop and am not being very successful.
>
>        ritchie at linux-9gkd:~/.ssh> ssh ritchie at hpdesk
>        Password:
>        Last login: Sat May  9 11:44:06 2009 from hpdesk
>        Have a lot of fun...
>        ritchie at hpdesk:~>
>
> As you can see, ssh works and lets me in BUT it still asks me for my password.
> Grrrr.

Try doing just "ssh hpdesk".  Since your local user is ritchie anyway,
it'll default to that.

Have you looked at the logs?  /var/log/auth.log and /var/log/messages
might be a good place to start.