SSH Key Problem

[Valor]

When I try to SSH into my server using public/private key authentication it rejects and I see this error:

"Authentication refused: bad ownership or modes for directory /home/username/.ssh"

Anyone know what this means and how to fix the error?

[Tor]

What does 'ls -la /home/username' and 'ls -la /home/username/.ssh/' show?

[RHochstenbach]

This probably means that the permissions of your .ssh directory are wrongly configured. Try these commands on the server:

chown -R username /home/username/.ssh
chmod -R 700 /home/username/.ssh

If you get a permission denied message, try it as root. But that also indicates that the permissions of your home directory are also wrongly configured. So try these commands on your home folder (/home/username) as well.