localhost: Permission denied (publickey,password,keyboard-interactive)

Question

I was trying to run Hadoop in Mac OS and I get the following errors,

$ hstart


WARNING: Attempting to start all Apache Hadoop daemons as chaklader in 10 seconds.
WARNING: This is not a recommended production deployment configuration.
WARNING: Use CTRL-C to abort.
Starting namenodes on [localhost]
localhost: Permission denied (publickey,password,keyboard-interactive).
Starting datanodes
localhost: Permission denied (publickey,password,keyboard-interactive).
Starting secondary namenodes [macs-MacBook-Pro.local]
macs-MacBook-Pro.local: Permission denied (publickey,password,keyboard-interactive).
2018-08-14 13:59:34,949 WARN util.NativeCodeLoader: Unable to load native-hadoop library for your platform... using builtin-java classes where applicable
Starting resourcemanager
Starting nodemanagers
localhost: Permission denied (publickey,password,keyboard-interactive).

I looked into the Google and find a similar post. I mentioned that Permission denied is the error, and I didn't set up passwordless ssh correctly. For example, ssh localhost should not ask for a password.

I run the ssh localhost and it did ask for the password. As a solution to the problem, it was mentioned to execute the command,

cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub >> ~/.ssh/authorized_keys

I did that and afterward when I run the ssh localhost, I was asked for the passphrase (than the password).

$ ssh localhost

Enter passphrase for key '/Users/chaklader/.ssh/id_rsa': 
Last login: Tue Aug 14 14:03:30 2018 from ::1

The original problem was not solved. There was another post mentioned to execute the command chmod og-wx ~/.ssh/authorized_keys and after I did that, it still keeps that same.

I tried to check what is inside the id_rsa and find the info,

$ cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub
ssh-rsa 

AAAAB3NzaC1yc2EAAAADAQABAAABAQDB/1Ryk4mB2/9rxpvF21JWKBOyx+hgo572zp9ZNcLmj1FcNN9saJ0AfYcmkILowEoCKgzOCbAvapd+JsPomPMsuKD37AGvfF88YWAjKPYOg3wo5JMwIp/CEyk349satGWUy+Q99288iJcS5NKkhLEN1bMOyIpgbFFxmpCdFXNSl9UfeCN4oyndWJzmnHkI6C9mu4BWibcW3PkKkwI2HVPop14m3jRjHJvmwGzRQxp/bjUVRqSZ52KTuVMYRrCsKdd048tBHOK0ujjshpBCoedtFoXt3xP0B78WZyvgFr2Pj9DrgdFI+T7gkJUv4xbmtKfCOZR7yFVwoUtgAF5k/FC1 [email protected]


$ cat ~/.ssh/authorized_keys 
ssh-rsa 

AAAAB3NzaC1yc2EAAAADAQABAAABAQDB/1Ryk4mB2/9rxpvF21JWKBOyx+hgo572zp9ZNcLmj1FcNN9saJ0AfYcmkILowEoCKgzOCbAvapd+JsPomPMsuKD37AGvfF88YWAjKPYOg3wo5JMwIp/CEyk349satGWUy+Q99288iJcS5NKkhLEN1bMOyIpgbFFxmpCdFXNSl9UfeCN4oyndWJzmnHkI6C9mu4BWibcW3PkKkwI2HVPop14m3jRjHJvmwGzRQxp/bjUVRqSZ52KTuVMYRrCsKdd048tBHOK0ujjshpBCoedtFoXt3xP0B78WZyvgFr2Pj9DrgdFI+T7gkJUv4xbmtKfCOZR7yFVwoUtgAF5k/FC1 [email protected]

This looks like the same info to me. What is here missed?

Solution

The private key should not be protected by a password. Check this post for checking that

Are the permissions on your private key properly set? It should be set as:

  chmod 600  ~/.ssh/id_rsa

Comments

[alpha]

The two files will have exactly the same contents,cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub >> ~/.ssh/authorized_keys this is what that command achieves. It looks like you have a passphrase set, i would generate a new ssh-key with no passphrase, and add that key to authorized keys.

[Arefe]

Why would that be helped?

[alpha]

because you have to enter a passphrase to log in? so you haven't set up passwordless ssh....

[dr_]

@alpha That's incorrect. The command appends the pubkey to the authorized keys file. It's just that the authorized keys file was empty, so after running the command the OP ended up with two identical files.

[Arefe]

Later I kept blank for the pass phrase and it worked

[David Douglas]

In my case on Mac I had already created a key using a password. So to fix this I deleted the 'authorized_keys' file and regenerated new private key with blank password. Then the ssh localhost command worked without password prompt

[Arefe]

The issue was the key was required a pass phrase