ssh - Build Git server

Question

I'm building my own git server on centos, I have done all these steps:

I add a new user named git and it's home is /home/git

and then I use ssh-keygen -t rsa to generate the .ssh

then I edit the /etc/ssh/sshd_config file to open the pub_key authorization :

RSAAuthentication yes
PubkeyAuthentication yes
AuthorizedKeysFile      .ssh/authorized_keys

then I git init --base in /srv/remote.git

finally I generate the id_rsa.pub on my client and copy it to my git server: /home/git/.ssh/authorized_keys

but when I git clone the repository : git@ip:/srv/remote.git

it always asks me to enter password, so why?

Answer 1

In order to debug what is going on:

• check the ssh sesion on the client:

  ssh -Tv git@ip
  

• check the logs on the server (/var/log/auth.log)

• check also the ssh daemon session to see what it does on the server when you do the ssh from the client (stop sshd, then restart it for a one-time connection with sshd -d)