I can ssh to my droplet from my windows, but when I try from my macOs it gives me a message "Permission demied (publickey, password).
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Hello there,
You can check our article on How to Upload an SSH Public Key to an Existing Droplet
https://www.digitalocean.com/docs/droplets/how-to/add-ssh-keys/to-existing-droplet/
You can access the droplet from the DigitalOcean console and then temporary enable the PasswordAuthentication on your droplet and access the droplet with a password to upload the ssh-key.
If you haven’t created new pair of keys you’ll need to do that first.
You can enable PasswordAuthentication for your Droplet by modifying your /etc/ssh/sshd_config
file. Once set to Yes restart the SSH service and connect via an SSH client for a more stable connection. You can then modify your ~/.ssh/authorized_keys
file to add the appropriate public key.
This change can be made from the DigitalOcean’s console. If you’re having issues accessing the console you can then reach to our amazing support team that can help you further with this.
To enable the PasswordAuthentication
follow these steps:
sudo nano /etc/ssh/sshd_config
PasswordAuthentication
from “no” to “yes” and save the filesudo nano ~/.ssh/authorized_keys
sudo nano /etc/ssh/sshd_config
PasswordAuthentication
from “yes” to “no” and save the fileYou can then upload the key using this command:
ssh-copy-id -i ~/.ssh/mykey user@droplet
Hope that this helps! Regards, Alex
I run into this quite often on my mac(s)/linux machines. Providing your SSH key (we’ll use id_rsa as an example) exists on the machine you are logging in from you may just need to add the key to your SSH Agent.
ssh-add ~/.ssh/id_rsa
or define the key with the ssh
command
ssh -i ~/.ssh/id_rsa username@droplet_ip
Hey friend, sounds like you’ll need to add the public key from your Mac to your Droplet.
The good news is you have access via your other Windows computer so one of these methods should be fine for you: https://www.digitalocean.com/docs/droplets/how-to/add-ssh-keys/to-existing-droplet/
none of the below works for me. on Ubuntu/Windows it’s working fine. Problem is with mac