I know there are many tutorials, including instructions on this forum but I find that SSH still asks me for a password.

Here is what I tried on the local machine:

```sh
ssh-keygen -t rsa                   #   Generate Key Pair, accepting all defaults
ssh-copy-id me@192.168.1.235        #   Copy to remote
ssh me@192.168.1.235                #   Still asks for password

```

I have also tried with a custom key:

```sh
ssh-keygen -t rsa -f ~/.ssh/test.rsa
ssh-copy-id -i ~/.ssh/test.rsa.pub me@192.168.1.235
ssh-add ~/.ssh/test.rsa
ssh -i ~/.ssh/test.rsa me@192.168.1.235

```

In the remote host, I have changed the privileges to `authorized_keys`:

```sh
chmod 600 authorized_keys

```

I have tried all the variations to copy the key to the remote server, but they all give me the same results, and the `authorized_keys` file has the same new key.

Many of the tutorials are several years old, and some are for linux, so I don’t know whether things should be different.

Is there an extra step I need to take to use SSH without a password?

I am on MacOS Catalina.

**Update**

I have turned on verbosity, and I get something like this:

```
debug1: rekey in after 134217728 blocks
debug1: Will attempt key: /Users/me/.ssh/test.rsa RSA SHA256:…etc…
debug1: SSH2_MSG_EXT_INFO received
debug1: kex_input_ext_info: server-sig-algs=<ssh-ed25519,ssh-rsa,rsa-sha2-256,rsa-sha2-512,ssh-dss,ecdsa-sha2-nistp256,ecdsa-sha2-nistp384,ecdsa-sha2-nistp521>
debug1: SSH2_MSG_SERVICE_ACCEPT received
debug1: Authentications that can continue: publickey,password,keyboard-interactive
debug1: Next authentication method: publickey
debug1: Offering public key: /Users/mark/.ssh/test.rsa RSA SHA256:…etc… explicit
debug1: Authentications that can continue: publickey,password,keyboard-interactive
debug1: Next authentication method: keyboard-interactive

```