SSH Key Authentication insist on password

I recently spent a lot of time trying to figure out why a private key I exported from putty was not working right on Linux. My issue was I kept getting prompted for a password no matter what.

One clue that may or may not show the issue in the SSHD logs I was NOT seeing "debug1: ssh_rsa_verify: signature correct" when keyed authentication failed and switched to password.

I fixed my problem by deleting the public key in the Linux client .ssh folder. So most likely while copying keys from Windows and putty I must have gotten a mismatch on private/public pair.

If you need it you can re-create it as follow:
rosso@rrosso-VirtualBox:~/.ssh$ ssh-keygen -y -f id_rsa > id_rsa.pub

$ ssh root@usli-utility.mgmt.asg.ad
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