Question
Can't SSH into server as newly created user (Permission denied (publickey)
- Posted on September 20, 2022
- DigitalOcean Droplets
Asked by Thomas Parfitt
I followed this guide https://www.digitalocean.com/community/questions/setting-up-a-new-user-using-ssh and I still get the error: Permission denied (publickey)
How can I create a new user inside my Ubuntu droplet with sudo access that I can access via ssh?
Thanks.
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Hello @thomasparfitt
Did you upload the ssh-key to the droplet?
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 check this article on How to Add/Delete users
https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-add-and-delete-users-on-ubuntu-20-04
Regards