Why is the system still prompting for a password after setting up DSA authentication for SSH?

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By monitoring the output of /var/log/secure on the server, the error messages might be able to help determine what exactly is causing the DSA authentication to fail. After trying to SSH from the client system to the SSH server system, log at the log file:

tail /var/log/secure

One common error may be the following:

sshd[11425]: Authenti...

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