> drwxr-xr-x  2 sshd   sshd   512 Nov 25 04:23 sshd

jm showed me that his computer had root:wheel as the owner of that dir.
I changed it and now it works. jm, i emailed you but you block
yahoo.com so it bounced. thanks!

what is the perm on that directory suppose to be?

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