Ubuntu/Mint cannot login via ssh even after ssh-copy-id

sshssh-copy-id
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Solution:

This may be caused by a directive in the /etc/ssh/ssh_config file.

To allow login with RSA key you need to uncomment the line:

#   IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_rsa
to

   IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_rsa

Save the changed to ssh_config and try login again.

To diagnose the issue you can try.

ssh -vv user@hostname

If you are having a key-exchange issue then your verbose error log will show

 

 

This is solution is not mentioned on this site:

http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/36540/why-am-i-still-getting-a-password-prompt-with-ssh-with-public-key-authentication#36687