RedHat 6/Oracle Linux 6 is not allowing key authentication via ssh

Question

Keys are properly deployed in ~/.ssh/authorized_keys

Yet ssh keeps on prompting for a password.

Answer 1

Several issues, mostly privileges - but also related to SELinux on RedHat 6

The following script should fix them all, please replace : with your matching userid and group

chown -R : ~/.ssh
chmod 700 ~/.ssh
chmod 600 ~/.ssh/*
restorecon -R -v ~/.ssh