ssh randomly not accepting my private key
 

so I have been using ssh on the server for quite some time. I have disabled password authentication and only use key based authentication. Now I have been using my key on my computer for months now. Just last night though I try to connect and it says I haven't changed anything at all. At least, I can't think of anything I changed. I was playing with trying to install rtorstat. which required a little bit of playing with apt, but I never touched ssh stuff. What could be the problem?

another thing I did was I made the permissions 777 on my home folder, but then I went in and changed the permissions back to 600 on the authorized_keys file.

Change id_rsa's permissions back to 600

Way too much of this around.
 

No follow up. No resolution.

thanks for your contribution to the two year old thread

I thought the point of searching before creating a new thread is to find answers and not ask redundant questions. But the answers aren't there.
Pardon me, sir. I have been dealing with a similar issue, and came here for an answer. There were suggestions, but no definitive answer. And this is something that I notice a lot.

When StrictModes are enabled for sshd_config (which they are by default), this action will break Pubkey Authentication, period. The user's home directory should be writable only by that user.

IOW: