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ssh: failed password despite publickey



i have a couple cronjobs (and so do you, mr. seanius) that call ssh
with a DSA private key passed to it via -i. the login works perfectly,
what annoys/disturbs me is that occasionally, the successful login via
publickey is preceeded by an entry such as:

  sshd[27248]: Failed password for madduck from 12.3.45.6 port 4507 ssh2

in /var/log/auth.log. Why is ssh trying to do keyboardinteractive or
whatever first, if it's asked explicitly to do publickey auth? And,
more importantly, how can I fix this?

Thanks,

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