Another Permission Denied (Public Key) error

I am on the process of cloning the ghost open blog cms, theres an option to run a vps through digital ocean. Choosing this method the droplet is created. Next step is to login as root@XXXXX

While doing so I got the dreaded Permission denied (public key). I re-created the ssh keys and updated in digital ocean but that didn’t solve the issue.

While running ssh -v root@xxxx command the output was as follows:

OpenSSH_8.1p1, LibreSSL 2.7.3 debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh/ssh_config debug1: /etc/ssh/ssh_config line 47: Applying options for * debug1: Connecting to xxx [xxx] port 22. debug1: Connection established. debug1: identity file /Users/dad/.ssh/id_rsa type 0 debug1: identity file /Users/dad/.ssh/id_rsa-cert type -1 debug1: identity file /Users/dad/.ssh/id_dsa type -1 debug1: identity file /Users/dad/.ssh/id_dsa-cert type -1 debug1: identity file /Users/dad/.ssh/id_ecdsa type -1 debug1: identity file /Users/dad/.ssh/id_ecdsa-cert type -1 debug1: identity file /Users/dad/.ssh/id_ed25519 type -1 debug1: identity file /Users/dad/.ssh/id_ed25519-cert type -1 debug1: identity file /Users/dad/.ssh/id_xmss type -1 debug1: identity file /Users/dad/.ssh/id_xmss-cert type -1 debug1: Local version string SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_8.1 debug1: Remote protocol version 2.0, remote software version OpenSSH_8.2p1 Ubuntu-4ubuntu0.2 debug1: match: OpenSSH_8.2p1 Ubuntu-4ubuntu0.2 pat OpenSSH* compat 0x04000000 debug1: Authenticating to xxx as ‘root’ debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEXINIT sent debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEXINIT received debug1: kex: algorithm: curve25519-sha256 debug1: kex: host key algorithm: ecdsa-sha2-nistp256 debug1: kex: server->client cipher: chacha20-poly1305@openssh.com MAC: <implicit> compression: none debug1: kex: client->server cipher: chacha20-poly1305@openssh.com MAC: <implicit> compression: none debug1: expecting SSH2_MSG_KEX_ECDH_REPLY debug1: Server host key: ecdsa-sha2-nistp256 SHA256:ecNEC3rocsntZyTMyGGH7MHfMoMufrPOmG8hPRgkwzs debug1: Host ‘xxx’ is known and matches the ECDSA host key. debug1: Found key in /Users/dad/.ssh/known_hosts:1 debug1: rekey out after 134217728 blocks debug1: SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS sent debug1: expecting SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS debug1: SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS received debug1: rekey in after 134217728 blocks debug1: Will attempt key: /Users/dad/.ssh/id_rsa RSA SHA256:/2EjDyRz3HYYyLqEegdjzEy2PfgIGnMNXvwbPzMgRqg debug1: Will attempt key: /Users/dad/.ssh/id_dsa debug1: Will attempt key: /Users/dad/.ssh/id_ecdsa debug1: Will attempt key: /Users/dad/.ssh/id_ed25519 debug1: Will attempt key: /Users/dad/.ssh/id_xmss debug1: SSH2_MSG_EXT_INFO received debug1: kex_input_ext_info: server-sig-algs=<ssh-ed25519,sk-ssh-ed25519@openssh.com,ssh-rsa,rsa-sha2-256,rsa-sha2-512,ssh-dss,ecdsa-sha2-nistp256,ecdsa-sha2-nistp384,ecdsa-sha2-nistp521,sk-ecdsa-sha2-nistp256@openssh.com> debug1: SSH2_MSG_SERVICE_ACCEPT received debug1: Authentications that can continue: publickey debug1: Next authentication method: publickey debug1: Offering public key: /Users/dad/.ssh/id_rsa RSA SHA256:/2EjDyRz3HYYyLqEegdjzEy2PfgIGnMNXvwbPzMgRqg debug1: Authentications that can continue: publickey debug1: Trying private key: /Users/dad/.ssh/id_dsa debug1: Trying private key: /Users/dad/.ssh/id_ecdsa debug1: Trying private key: /Users/dad/.ssh/id_ed25519 debug1: Trying private key: /Users/dad/.ssh/id_xmss debug1: No more authentication methods to try.