At this point I’m thinking maybe the permissions on my local private key got screwed up. So, I blow away ~/.ssh and recreate all of my keys from a backup Is th

At this point I’m thinking maybe the permissions on my local private key got screwed up. So, I blow away ~/.ssh and recreate all of my keys from a backup Is that a common thing to do, or any reason why the OP would do that? Doesn't ssh reject your key, saying it does that if there's such a problem? And even if not wouldn't it be advisable to at least look at the permissions; I mean suppose they're not -rw------- or so, wouldn't you want to know that, and also why they are not ok?