SSH key question

[Colin Watson]

On Thu, Dec 10, 2020 at 10:09:10AM -0800, MR ZenWiz wrote:
> However, from my own laptop, I can't get password-free access, via ssh
> or rsync, to my base desktop.  I either put up with the password
> prompt, or ssh to the base from the laptop and run the file transfers
> from the remote base login to/from the laptop because that way it does
> not require passwords.

Since it appeared from your client debug logs as though your client was
indeed attempting to authenticate using a public key, your best bet
would be to look at /var/log/auth.log on the server to find out why it's
denying that public key authentication attempt.

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Colin Watson (he/him)                              [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]