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@laptop:~/.ssh> ssh ritchie@desktop Password: Last login: Sat May 9 11:44:06 2009 from desktop Have a lot of fun... ritchie@desktop:~> As you can see, ssh works and lets me in BUT it still asks me for my password. Grrrr. I feel I am missing something really stupid. All pointers welcome :-) Setup: Laptop: Desktop: OS: OpenSUSE 11.1 OpenSUSE 10.3 I followed the instructions here... http://en.opensuse.org/Public_Key_Authentication I created my rsa key pair on laptop and copied it (id_rsa.pub) into my ~/.ssh/authorized_keys on desktop. I made the suggested changes to client (laptop) and server (desktop) config files. I can post config files if necessary. -- Kind Regards, Ritchie ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Ritchie Fraser Web: http://www.rpfraser.uklinux.net Registered Linux User #255860