I made a droplet with ssh keys selected, logged in as root perfectly fine, did “adduser demo” and “gpasswd -a demo sudo”. When i try to ssh in as demo@xxx.xxx.xxx i get a “Permission denied (publickey).” but when i try again as root@xxx.xxx.xxx its perfectly fine.
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You need to edit the file /etc/ssh/sshd_config and edit/add this line:
PasswordAuthentication yes
And restart sshd with the command sudo service ssh restart
@hansen thanks that worked but how do i login using ssh key? i can login with ssh key as root but have to use password as the other user?
Your sshd_config should now have these two lines (probably different positions)
PasswordAuthentication yes
PubkeyAuthentication yes
First line allows passwords, second line allows keys.
@hansen nvm i figured it out apparently you need to add the key again loggin in as new user like so “ssh-copy-id newuser@host” the ssh key you use at droplet creation is for root only apparently
Ahhh, sorry, I misunderstood your question then. I thought that you wanted to be able to login with password. Someone just asked that question a few minutes before.
I would highly recommend only using keys and disabling the password access for all users.
Most of the answers are outright wrong.
What you need is to add the ssh key to your non-root account. Since you already have ssh keys in root’s user directory. All you need is to execute this command: