RedHat 6/Oracle Linux 6 is not allowing key authentication via ssh

Question

Keys are properly deployed in ~/.ssh/authorized_keys

Yet ssh keeps on prompting for a password.

Answer 1

I had also this same issue, the proposed solution above did not solve the case for me. To summarise instructions abowe together:

1. Check following logfile on target system for possible details of errors: /var/log/secure
2. Permission of files in users ~/.ssh directory should be 600 and files should be owned By "user:group"
3. Permission of ~/.ssh directory should be 700 and owned By "user:group"
4. Permission of home directory of user ie. "~" (="~/.ssh/..") should be 755. If permissions are f.ex 775, ssh key autenthication failed in my system.

br bruno