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How did you get the public key to the server?  Assuming the public key
was generated by putty, did you export it to openssh format first?

> I'm trying to use an RSA key to authenticate an ssh client connection,
> but the key is refused. I've set logging to DEBUG in the sshd_config,
> and it does show that it's attempting the keyfiles, but it doens't
> give me detail on the failure. The authorized_keys2 file is set to 640
> (I've also tried 440, 400, 600).

Try using authorized_keys instead of authorized_keys2.  Also, I believe
the .ssh directory must be 700, and the authorized_keys files must be
either 400 or 600.  It's the group and other bits that are important,
they must both be 0.
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