I can't/won't try to decipher the log messages, and the following is offered on the basis of your comment re the password in your question. Two possibilities for this occur to me:

1. If you're getting a password prompt, that may be because you opted to password-protect your key when you generated your keys with ssh-keygen. This is not the same as authenticating yourself to the server with a passphrase - the password created during ssh-keygen is to prevent someone else from using the key pair you generated.

2. Just to briefly review basic SSH functionality:

• The system from which you initiate the SSH connection is the client.

• The system to which the client connects is the server.

• The public & private key generation is done on the client

• The public key is transferred from the client to the server

• There are many good tutorials available on this proedure. This one from DO seems like a good one to me.

I can't/won't try to decipher the log messages, and the following is offered on the basis of your issue with the password in your question. Two possibilities for this occur to me:

1. If you're getting a password prompt, that may be because you opted to password-protect your key when you generated your keys with ssh-keygen. This is not the same as authenticating yourself to the server with a passphrase - the password created during ssh-keygen is to prevent someone else from using the key pair you generated.

2. Just to briefly review basic SSH functionality:

• The system from which you initiate the SSH connection is the client.

• The system to which the client connects is the server.

• The public & private key generation is done on the client

• The public key is transferred from the client to the server

• There are many good tutorials available on this proedure. This one from DO seems like a good one to me.