I few shorts remarks about selinux, more like a reminder for myself Restore directory permissions, exmple authorized keys files that doesn’t work restorecon -R -v ~/.ssh How to temporarily disable selinux, i use this for debugging to see if the problem is selinux echo 0 >/selinux/enforce # or setenforce 0 And to enable them again use echo 1 >/selinux/enforce # or setenforce 1