Thanks, Greg. I trimmed your message just to let you know that it does not work.
Greg Wooledge: > On Fri, Sep 23, 2016 at 12:31:00PM +0000, Stephan Beck wrote: > As user stephan, to test that it works: > > stephan@hostname:~$ ssh test@localhost id > > If your username isn't actually "stephan", substitute accordingly. me@mymachine:~$ sudo service ssh restart me@mymachine:~$ ssh xb1158@localhost id Permission denied (publickey). I now will read carefully your (and the other messages sent in reply) and will give a more thorough reply in a while. When I send my messages, I send them and do not read the answers (arrived in the meantime) first, so please do not think that I'm not interested in them. Many thanks. Stephan