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Nothing unusual in the syslog.

did you check your public key on remote server ?

and you can write "ssh -vv " output in the forum ?

I have been asked to post the ssh -vv output and I have been told that I cannot post this information as it contains too much proprietary info. All I can tell you is reference my post stating the authentication method fails to password authentication after it does a successful connection. Also, I referenced the syslog.log and it is saying . I referenced the internet and a few sources are saying exactly what ygemici posted on the permissions. Any other suggestions?

Make sure the home directory is: drwxr-x---

and ~/.ssh drwxr-x---

and authorized_keys -rw-r-----

All directories have sufficient permissions.

According to: Authentication refused: bad ownership or modes for directory /home

this is where your problem is, it gives that error when the permissions of home are to relaxed. Set it to what I recommended and try it. I had the same thing in the past and this is how I fixed it. Even try the home directory as 700 if 750 still gives same error.

750 on the home directory fixed it. This still does not explain why permissions are different on this server compared to other servers with the same accounts who have the same permissions set to 770. Any explanations on why this may be?