Why can't I ssh into my server using my private key?

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Published on 2012-09-23T01:02:07Z Indexed on 2012/09/23 3:39 UTC
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I just setup my new server as I used to, and this time I can't login using my private key.

The server is ubuntu 11.04. And I have setup following ssh key directories.

root@myserv: ls -la 
drwx------  2 root root 4096 Sep 23 03:40 .ssh

And in .ssh directory, I have done chmod 640 authorized_keys

Here is the ssh connection tracebacks:

OpenSSH_5.9p1, OpenSSL 0.9.8r 8 Feb 2011
debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh_config
debug1: /etc/ssh_config line 20: Applying options for *
debug1: Connecting to [my.server.ip] [[my.server.ip]] port 22.
debug1: Connection established.
debug1: identity file /Users/john/.ssh/id_rsa type -1
debug1: identity file /Users/john/.ssh/id_rsa-cert type -1
debug1: identity file /Users/john/.ssh/id_dsa type 1
debug1: identity file /Users/john/.ssh/id_dsa-cert type -1
debug1: Remote protocol version 2.0, remote software version OpenSSH_5.8p1 Debian-1ubuntu3
debug1: match: OpenSSH_5.8p1 Debian-1ubuntu3 pat OpenSSH*
debug1: Enabling compatibility mode for protocol 2.0
debug1: Local version string SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_5.9
debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEXINIT sent
debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEXINIT received
debug1: kex: server->client aes128-ctr hmac-md5 none
debug1: kex: client->server aes128-ctr hmac-md5 none
debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEX_DH_GEX_REQUEST(1024<1024<8192) sent
debug1: expecting SSH2_MSG_KEX_DH_GEX_GROUP
debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEX_DH_GEX_INIT sent
debug1: expecting SSH2_MSG_KEX_DH_GEX_REPLY
debug1: Server host key: RSA ef:b8:8f:b4:fc:a0:57:7d:ce:50:36:17:37:fa:f7:ec
debug1: Host '[my.server.ip]' is known and matches the RSA host key.
debug1: Found key in /Users/john/.ssh/known_hosts:2
debug1: ssh_rsa_verify: signature correct
debug1: SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS sent
debug1: expecting SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS
debug1: SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS received
debug1: Roaming not allowed by server
debug1: SSH2_MSG_SERVICE_REQUEST sent
debug1: SSH2_MSG_SERVICE_ACCEPT received
debug1: Authentications that can continue: publickey,password
debug1: Next authentication method: publickey
debug1: Trying private key: /Users/john/.ssh/id_rsa
debug1: Offering RSA public key: /Users/john/.ssh/id_dsa
debug1: Authentications that can continue: publickey,password
debug1: Next authentication method: password
root@[my.server.ip]'s password: 

Update:

I have found the reason but I can't explain it yet.

It is caused by uploading the key using rsync -chavz instead of scp, after I used scp to upload my key, the issue is gone. Can someone explain it?

Later, I tried rsync -chv, still not working

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