One of the problems users have getting ssh public key authentication to work is that the permissions on the files or directories are incorrect (often too permissive). Below is a short list of commands to run in the user’s home directory in order to set the correct permissions.
All of these files/folders should be owned by the user, not root.
chmod 700 ~/.ssh
chmod 644 ~/.ssh/authorized_keys
chmod 644 ~/.ssh/known_hosts
chmod 644 ~/.ssh/config
chmod 600 ~/.ssh/id_rsa
chmod 644 ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub
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