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    Thank you very much for pointing out restorecon. I've been scratching my head at precisely this issue for a while now. Commented Dec 3, 2012 at 14:56
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    Oddly enough, I was having problems with an account a friend set up on his VPS getting pubkey auth working. I thought all the permissions were correct, but it's important to remember that /home/USER must be 700 or 755 Commented Jan 25, 2013 at 19:22
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    also, add -v to your ssh command to see what happens with that key. ssh -v user@host. Commented Feb 17, 2014 at 19:38
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    I also had to make sure my ~ itself, $HOME, was appropriately secure. It was originally 775 for some reason. chmod 700 $HOME did the trick. Commented Oct 3, 2015 at 13:39
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    chmod -R 700 ~/.ssh worked for me to meet the constraints of this answer (RHEL 7) Commented Nov 16, 2015 at 20:33