ssh permission denied

Question

I am trying to ssh into a remote machine and I get the following debug messages:

debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh/ssh_config
debug1: Applying options          


        

Answer 1

As the answer above states, it looks to be a bad key. Run ssh-keygen and create a new one with the existing one being backed up.

Then try doing an

id_rsa.pub >> authorized_keys

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