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<body><div>Problem solved:<br></div>
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<div>AS ROOT:<br></div>
<div>cd /home/steve<br></div>
<div>chown steve:steve .ssh <-----------------this line and the next appeared to be the culprit<br></div>
<div>chmod 700 .ssh<br></div>
<div>cd .ssh<br></div>
<div>chown steve:steve authorized_keys<br></div>
<div>chmod 600 authorized_keys<br></div>
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<div>On Mon, May 11, 2015, at 00:07, Chris Punches wrote:<br></div>
<div>Can you please provide the sshd.conf being used?<br></div>
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<div>Also could you set sshd.conf to verbose logging, generate a few login attempts, and paste /var/log/auth.log or equivalent of that log for your distro?<br></div>
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<div>-Chris Punches<br></div>
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