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SSH publickey autentication - server accepts key but auth does not succeed

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Problem

I'm helping a friend who has some trouble connecting using public-key authentication, to a server maintainied by me. Public-key auth works fine for a couple of other users. Of course, my friend's public key is in authorized_keys-file on the server. The following line does not make sense to me Since…

Error Output

debug1: Host 'xxxxx' is known and matches the RSA host key.
debug1: Found key in /home/xxx/.ssh/known_hosts:3
debug1: ssh_rsa_verify: signature corre…

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Fix for: SSH publickey autentication - server accepts key but auth does not succeed

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I believe that you are showing client-side logs/debugging output. I would look at the server-side logs as that usually gives more detail about why the server rejected a public-key authentication attempt. E.g. insecure permissions on users home or .s…

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