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Copied the public key, still 'Permission denied (publickey)'???

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Accepted solution by Arjun Ekström — Run the client in verbose mode first: [code] look for Offering public key: lines. if your key is never offered, teh client isn't using it:…
  1. Silas L.
    @silasl435

    My key works on every other server. On a new EC2 instance, from a CI job, nothing:

    A colleague set up teh account. They swear they pasted my key. I'm starting to suspect the server, but I don't even know where to look.

    It's frustrating because I can't see anything on the server side, and the error message is the same for every possible mistake. Is there a way to get more detail from the client at least?

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  2. Kira B.
    @cobaltloop

    hmmm in ssh -vvv, do you see Offering public key for the key you expect, and what comes right after?

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  4. Arjun Ekström
    @arjun_early
    Accepted solution

    Run the client in verbose mode first:

    ssh -vvv user@host

    look for Offering public key: lines. if your key is never offered, teh client isn't using it: pass -i ~/.ssh/id_ed25519 or set IdentityFile in ~/.ssh/config. If it's offered and rejected, the server side is the problem. lmk how it goes

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