Getting falied publickey messge in the logs.

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Issue

  • Getting following messages in ssh, sftp.
 Aug 11 xx:xx:xx hostname sftpd[1932]: Failed publickey for user from 172.xx.xx.xx port 4xxx5 ssh2
  • Users are authenticating with certificate + public key.
  • Multiple instances are running for sshd.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  • SSH
  • SFTP

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