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.SSH and its inside files permission

To change .ssh and its files user and group

chown -R your_user:your_user .ssh

Folder and file permission ss for rights, go with 700 for .ssh and 600 for authorized_keys and other files.

chmod 700 .ssh 
chmod 600 .ssh/authorized_keys

Keys need to be only readable by you:

chmod 400 ~/.ssh/id_rsa

If Keys need to be read-writable by you:

chmod 600 ~/.ssh/id_rsa
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