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I'm having issues with one of my computers on my server accepting my key. I've used this key on other computers I've set up before with no problems, I can SSH using it into many different servers.

Here's the tail of the log:

debug1: Authentications that can continue: publickey,password

debug1: Next authentication method: publickey

debug1: Offering RSA public key: /home/james/.ssh/id_rsa

debug1: Server accepts key: pkalg ssh-rsa blen 279

debug1: Trying private key: /home/james/.ssh/id_dsa

debug1: Trying private key: /home/james/.ssh/id_ecdsa

debug1: Next authentication method: password

My permissions are all correct, I've double checked them like 8 times now on both computers. I've also tried deleting the auth hosts file from the server, that didn't seem to have an effect either. Any ideas?

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James
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  • Have you looked at the relevant sshd log on the server? The log file will depend on which distro you're using, e.g., /var/log/auth.log or maybe /var/log/secure. – cjc Nov 29 '12 at 21:05
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    are you 100% sure that the key is transferred correctly ? – Goez Nov 29 '12 at 21:57
  • Look at the debug log on the _server_. That's where the useful information will be. – Michael Hampton Nov 30 '12 at 02:22

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I think you are missing the private key file on the client machine /home/james/.ssh/id_rsa, and you only have the public key /home/james/.ssh/id_rsa.pub.

You should see this:

debug1: Offering public key: /home/james/.ssh/id_rsa
debug1: Server accepts key: pkalg ssh-rsa blen 277
debug1: read PEM private key done: type RSA
debug1: Authentication succeeded (publickey).
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