I'm trying to setup my ssh server for password less login (key login) and it does not work. I have tried different permission, played around with different usernames. same results. It continue to ask me for a password. So I turned on verbose during login and I'm posting the output here, but first let me tell you how I configured

```
mkdir .ssh 
ssh-keygen -t rsa -b 4096
#this created the id_rsa (private) and id_rsa.pub (public)
#then I copied the pub key over to server but first created .ssh on server
mkdir .ssh
#copy key
scp ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub username@192.168.1.5:/home/user/.ssh

cat .ssh/id_rsa.pub >> .ssh/authorized_keys

then I changed permissions to remote .ssh dir
chmod 0700 .ssh
chmod 0600 .ssh/*

```

try connecting and still ask for password... what am I missing here

```
 ssh jsmith@192.168.137.5 -v
OpenSSH_7.6p1 Ubuntu-4ubuntu0.3, OpenSSL 1.0.2n  7 Dec 2017
debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh/ssh_config
debug1: /etc/ssh/ssh_config line 19: Applying options for *
debug1: Connecting to 192.168.137.5 [192.168.137.5] port 22.
debug1: Connection established.
debug1: identity file /home/jsmith/.ssh/id_rsa type 0
debug1: key_load_public: No such file or directory
debug1: identity file /home/jsmith/.ssh/id_rsa-cert type -1
debug1: key_load_public: No such file or directory
debug1: identity file /home/jsmith/.ssh/id_dsa type -1
debug1: key_load_public: No such file or directory
debug1: identity file /home/jsmith/.ssh/id_dsa-cert type -1
debug1: key_load_public: No such file or directory
debug1: identity file /home/jsmith/.ssh/id_ecdsa type -1
debug1: key_load_public: No such file or directory
debug1: identity file /home/jsmith/.ssh/id_ecdsa-cert type -1
debug1: key_load_public: No such file or directory
debug1: identity file /home/jsmith/.ssh/id_ed25519 type -1
debug1: key_load_public: No such file or directory
debug1: identity file /home/jsmith/.ssh/id_ed25519-cert type -1
debug1: Local version string SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_7.6p1 Ubuntu-4ubuntu0.3
debug1: Remote protocol version 2.0, remote software version OpenSSH_8.2p1 Ubuntu-4ubuntu0.1
debug1: match: OpenSSH_8.2p1 Ubuntu-4ubuntu0.1 pat OpenSSH* compat 0x04000000
debug1: Authenticating to 192.168.137.5:22 as 'jsmith'
debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEXINIT sent
debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEXINIT received
debug1: kex: algorithm: curve25519-sha256
debug1: kex: host key algorithm: ecdsa-sha2-nistp256
debug1: kex: server->client cipher: chacha20-poly1305@openssh.com MAC: <implicit> compression: none
debug1: kex: client->server cipher: chacha20-poly1305@openssh.com MAC: <implicit> compression: none
debug1: expecting SSH2_MSG_KEX_ECDH_REPLY
debug1: Server host key: ecdsa-sha2-nistp256 SHA256:fki8+w3jFMEPfWs1Onmyg/F49v5gmkJw+IQPIO04dFE
debug1: Host '192.168.137.5' is known and matches the ECDSA host key.
debug1: Found key in /home/jsmith/.ssh/known_hosts:1
debug1: rekey after 134217728 blocks
debug1: SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS sent
debug1: expecting SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS
debug1: SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS received
debug1: rekey after 134217728 blocks
debug1: SSH2_MSG_EXT_INFO received
debug1: kex_input_ext_info: server-sig-algs=<ssh-ed25519,sk-ssh-ed25519@openssh.com,ssh-rsa,rsa-sha2-256,rsa-sha2-512,ssh-dss,ecdsa-sha2-nistp256,ecdsa-sha2-nistp384,ecdsa-sha2-nistp521,sk-ecdsa-sha2-nistp256@openssh.com>
debug1: SSH2_MSG_SERVICE_ACCEPT received
debug1: Authentications that can continue: publickey
debug1: Next authentication method: publickey
debug1: Offering public key: RSA SHA256:Z25KcC58I5C8/mvtJmlRDL5AOZ5cIYXY8nbgfIABFVU /home/jsmith/.ssh/id_rsa
debug1: Server accepts key: pkalg rsa-sha2-512 blen 535
Enter passphrase for key '/home/jsmith/.ssh/id_rsa':
debug1: Authentication succeeded (publickey).
Authenticated to 192.168.137.5 ([192.168.137.5]:22).
debug1: channel 0: new [client-session]
debug1: Requesting no-more-sessions@openssh.com
debug1: Entering interactive session.
debug1: pledge: network
debug1: client_input_global_request: rtype hostkeys-00@openssh.com want_reply 0
debug1: Remote: /home/jsmith/.ssh/authorized_keys:1: key options: agent-forwarding port-forwarding pty user-rc x11-forwarding
debug1: Remote: /home/jsmith/.ssh/authorized_keys:1: key options: agent-forwarding port-forwarding pty user-rc x11-forwarding
debug1: Sending environment.
debug1: Sending env LANG = C.UTF-8
Welcome to Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS (GNU/Linux 5.4.0-42-generic x86_64)

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  System information as of Fri 07 Aug 2020 11:54:16 PM UTC

  System load:  0.03              Processes:               137
  Usage of /:   72.2% of 3.87GB   Users logged in:         1
  Memory usage: 14%               IPv4 address for enp0s3: 192.168.137.5
  Swap usage:   0%

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Last login: Fri Aug  7 23:50:02 2020 from 192.168.137.1

```