the process is failing because someone on your end added a leading space to the user name 'archiva', e.g. ' archiva'. please remove the leading space. thanks.
Dec 28 10:46:21 ip-208-109-219-84 sshd[21886]: Connection from 38.97.124.18 port 33786 Dec 28 10:46:22 ip-208-109-219-84 sshd[21886]: Invalid user archiva from 38.97.124.18 Dec 28 10:46:22 ip-208-109-219-84 sshd[21887]: input_userauth_request: invalid user archiva Dec 28 10:46:23 ip-208-109-219-84 sshd[21887]: Connection closed by 38.97.124.18 > groupId: org.bluestemsoftware > Error: > Permission denied (publickey,gssapi-with-mic). > rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (0 bytes received so far) [receiver] > rsync error: unexplained error (code 255) at io.c(635) [receiver=3.0.3] > Error synchronizing metadata. Exit code: 255
