I created a Fedora droplet and added my machine’s public SSH Key (that I happen to use for other services and which seems to work well with other services) to it before creation. After creation I cannot access it via ssh, I get the following message:
Permission denied (publickey,gssapi-keyex,gssapi-with-mic).
I tried to connect to it via console but I get prompted for login and password. I think I should have received them by email or something like that, but I received no email whatsoever. what to do?
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If you added a public key to your DigitalOcean account and selected that public key during the deployment of your Droplet, you won’t receive a root password as password authentication is disabled when SSH keys are used.
You would need to login and pass the private key associated with the public key you provided.
ssh root@droplet_ip -i /path/to/privatekey
The above works on MacOS and Linux, though if you’re using Windows and PuTTy, you’d need to set the path to your private key in the configuration settings for putty.
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