Rich, Here's where I think the problem is:
"debug1: Trying private key: /home/rshepard/.ssh/id_ed25519_sk debug3: no such identity: /home/rshepard/.ssh/id_ed25519_sk: No such file or directory debug1: Trying private key: /home/rshepard/.ssh/id_xmss debug3: no such identity: /home/rshepard/.ssh/id_xmss: No such file or directory debug1: Trying private key: /home/rshepard/.ssh/id_dsa debug3: no such identity: /home/rshepard/.ssh/id_dsa: No such file or directory debug2: we did not send a packet, disable method" Seems like you can't traverse the ~/.ssh directory try "ssh -i path-to-pem-file username@ip-address" If this works then you need to chmod +x the ~/.ssh/* and chmod 700 ~/.ssh chmod 600~/.ssh/* –
