By mdixon18
Hi,
I’ve added a new SSH Key that I got from my second computer into ~/.ssh/authorized_keys, so now online 1 I have to key for my laptop and line 2 the key for my iMac.
I then restarted the service sudo service ssh restart, this worked fine. I’ve even tried rebooting the entire droplet.
Now when i try to SSH in from my iMac ssh root@ip.address , I am prompted for my root’s password which I insert and I get a Permission denied, please try again error.
I’ve also tried:
cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub | ssh root@[your.ip.address.here] "cat >> ~/.ssh/authorized_keys"
However again, i’m prompted to insert my password and again given the permission denied error.
How can I resolve this?
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It could be the key is not being read, but you would need to review the verbose output of your ssh command using the code:
ssh -v root@x.x.x.x - /path/to/key_file
You would want to replace the /path/to/key_file with the actual path to your SSH key file.
If you continue seeing issues with it, you might want to open a ticket with us so we can help look into this further for you.
Hope it helps! Jason Colyer DigitalOcean Platform Support Lead
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