[ubuntu] SSH- authorized_keys: permission denied

Hello everyone!

I have recently installed ubuntu for the first time, and it took me a couple of installs to get everything to work properly. At the moment, I am trying to set up ssh keys to coect to my ubuntu server, hosted remotely. I had it working at one point, but then while installing a tarball screwed up my OS so had to reset everything. After doing this, I have been unable to get ssh to work, and I have tried changing permissions to the various files, and even deleting and creating the ssh files myself (other than the keys themselves that is).

The exact error code I get when doing

ssh-copy-id [useame]@[ip]

bash: line 2: /ssh/authorized_keys: Permission denied

ssh [useame]@[ip]

Thanks.

Edit: I know it is not a major issue, but without this writing scripts for backing up files etc to my server becomes much harder.