After I copied the public key to authorized_keys why does the public-key authentication not work?
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Typically this is caused by the file permissions on $HOME, $HOME/.ssh or $HOME/.ssh/authorized_keys being more permissive than sshd allows by default.
In this case, it can be solved by executing the following on the server:
$ chmod go-w $HOME $HOME/.ssh
$ chmod 600 $HOME/.ssh/authorized_keys
If this is no...
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