ssh will complain about permissions on .ssh. The permissions of the directory should be 700 (dwrx------)
authorized_keys needs to be 640 (-rw-r-----)
Also, you don't have to restart sshd after copying the ssh keys, authorized_keys will start working immediately.
If you are using a Linux host, ssh-copy-id will take care of copying your public key to a remote host and appending it to the authorized_keys file. (Under macOS you can install it with brew install ssh-copy-id).
Again, great write-up, using ssh-keys is paramount to good security practices.
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Good write-up, but two changes:
700 (dwrx------)640 (-rw-r-----)Also, you don't have to restart sshd after copying the ssh keys, authorized_keys will start working immediately.
If you are using a Linux host, ssh-copy-id will take care of copying your public key to a remote host and appending it to the authorized_keys file. (Under macOS you can install it with
brew install ssh-copy-id).Again, great write-up, using ssh-keys is paramount to good security practices.