To enable user public-key authentication on the server (it is allowed by default), make sure the AllowedAuthentications keyword in the /etc/ssh2/sshd2_config file contains the argument publickey:
AllowedAuthentications publickey
Other authentication methods can be listed in the configuration file as well.
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