I have been combing through stack exchange, ubuntu’s forums, and digital ocean, but I can’t seem to find out why I cannot connect to my server.

It’s been almost a year since I’ve been on it, I never had any problems until yesterday. I tried to connect via ssh and it didn’t work, so I decided to generate a new ssh key and add it in the security section.

After failing again with the newly generated key, I went to the web console and looked in authorizedkeys, only to find that it hadn’t updated. I was able to copy about half my public key into the authorizedkeys file and then I had to do it by hand because the characters began changing.

This Failed once again, below is the output of ssh -vvv user@IP

OpenSSH7.6p1, LibreSSL 2.6.2
debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh/sshconfig
debug1: /etc/ssh/sshconfig line 48: Applying options for *
debug1: /etc/ssh/sshconfig line 52: Applying options for *
debug2: sshconnectdirect: needpriv 0
debug1: Connecting to 45.55.137.106 port 22.
debug1: Connection established.
debug1: identity file /Users/brendan/.ssh/idrsa type 0
debug1: keyloadpublic: No such file or directory
debug1: identity file /Users/brendan/.ssh/idrsa-cert type -1
debug1: keyloadpublic: No such file or directory
debug1: identity file /Users/brendan/.ssh/iddsa type -1
debug1: keyloadpublic: No such file or directory
debug1: identity file /Users/brendan/.ssh/iddsa-cert type -1
debug1: keyloadpublic: No such file or directory
debug1: identity file /Users/brendan/.ssh/idecdsa type -1
debug1: keyloadpublic: No such file or directory
debug1: identity file /Users/brendan/.ssh/idecdsa-cert type -1
debug1: keyloadpublic: No such file or directory
debug1: identity file /Users/brendan/.ssh/ided25519 type -1
debug1: keyloadpublic: No such file or directory
debug1: identity file /Users/brendan/.ssh/ided25519-cert type -1
debug1: Local version string SSH-2.0-OpenSSH7.6
debug1: Remote protocol version 2.0, remote software version OpenSSH7.2p2 Ubuntu-4ubuntu2.4
debug1: match: OpenSSH7.2p2 Ubuntu-4ubuntu2.4 pat OpenSSH* compat 0x04000000
debug3: fd 5 is ONONBLOCK
debug1: Authenticating to 45.55.137.106:22 as ‘root’
debug3: hostkeysforeach: reading file “/Users/brendan/.ssh/knownhosts”
debug3: recordhostkey: found key type ECDSA in file /Users/brendan/.ssh/knownhosts:4
debug3: loadhostkeys: loaded 1 keys from 45.55.137.106
debug3: orderhostkeyalgs: prefer hostkeyalgs: ecdsa-sha2-nistp256-cert-v01@openssh.com,ecdsa-sha2-nistp384-cert-v01@openssh.com,ecdsa-sha2-nistp521-cert-v01@openssh.com,ecdsa-sha2-nistp256,ecdsa-sha2-nistp384,ecdsa-sha2-nistp521
debug3: send packet: type 20
debug1: SSH2MSGKEXINIT sent
debug3: receive packet: type 20
debug1: SSH2MSGKEXINIT received
debug2: local client KEXINIT proposal
debug2: KEX algorithms: curve25519-sha256,curve25519-sha256@libssh.org,ecdh-sha2-nistp256,ecdh-sha2-nistp384,ecdh-sha2-nistp521,diffie-hellman-group-exchange-sha256,diffie-hellman-group16-sha512,diffie-hellman-group18-sha512,diffie-hellman-group-exchange-sha1,diffie-hellman-group14-sha256,diffie-hellman-group14-sha1,ext-info-c
debug2: host key algorithms: ecdsa-sha2-nistp256-cert-v01@openssh.com,ecdsa-sha2-nistp384-cert-v01@openssh.com,ecdsa-sha2-nistp521-cert-v01@openssh.com,ecdsa-sha2-nistp256,ecdsa-sha2-nistp384,ecdsa-sha2-nistp521,ssh-ed25519-cert-v01@openssh.com,ssh-rsa-cert-v01@openssh.com,ssh-ed25519,rsa-sha2-512,rsa-sha2-256,ssh-rsa
debug2: ciphers ctos: chacha20-poly1305@openssh.com,aes128-ctr,aes192-ctr,aes256-ctr,aes128-gcm@openssh.com,aes256-gcm@openssh.com
debug2: ciphers stoc: chacha20-poly1305@openssh.com,aes128-ctr,aes192-ctr,aes256-ctr,aes128-gcm@openssh.com,aes256-gcm@openssh.com
debug2: MACs ctos: umac-64-etm@openssh.com,umac-128-etm@openssh.com,hmac-sha2-256-etm@openssh.com,hmac-sha2-512-etm@openssh.com,hmac-sha1-etm@openssh.com,umac-64@openssh.com,umac-128@openssh.com,hmac-sha2-256,hmac-sha2-512,hmac-sha1
debug2: MACs stoc: umac-64-etm@openssh.com,umac-128-etm@openssh.com,hmac-sha2-256-etm@openssh.com,hmac-sha2-512-etm@openssh.com,hmac-sha1-etm@openssh.com,umac-64@openssh.com,umac-128@openssh.com,hmac-sha2-256,hmac-sha2-512,hmac-sha1
debug2: compression ctos: none,zlib@openssh.com,zlib
debug2: compression stoc: none,zlib@openssh.com,zlib
debug2: languages ctos:
debug2: languages stoc:
debug2: firstkexfollows 0
debug2: reserved 0
debug2: peer server KEXINIT proposal
debug2: KEX algorithms: curve25519-sha256@libssh.org,ecdh-sha2-nistp256,ecdh-sha2-nistp384,ecdh-sha2-nistp521,diffie-hellman-group-exchange-sha256,diffie-hellman-group14-sha1
debug2: host key algorithms: ssh-rsa,rsa-sha2-512,rsa-sha2-256,ecdsa-sha2-nistp256,ssh-ed25519
debug2: ciphers ctos: chacha20-poly1305@openssh.com,aes128-ctr,aes192-ctr,aes256-ctr,aes128-gcm@openssh.com,aes256-gcm@openssh.com
debug2: ciphers stoc: chacha20-poly1305@openssh.com,aes128-ctr,aes192-ctr,aes256-ctr,aes128-gcm@openssh.com,aes256-gcm@openssh.com
debug2: MACs ctos: umac-64-etm@openssh.com,umac-128-etm@openssh.com,hmac-sha2-256-etm@openssh.com,hmac-sha2-512-etm@openssh.com,hmac-sha1-etm@openssh.com,umac-64@openssh.com,umac-128@openssh.com,hmac-sha2-256,hmac-sha2-512,hmac-sha1
debug2: MACs stoc: umac-64-etm@openssh.com,umac-128-etm@openssh.com,hmac-sha2-256-etm@openssh.com,hmac-sha2-512-etm@openssh.com,hmac-sha1-etm@openssh.com,umac-64@openssh.com,umac-128@openssh.com,hmac-sha2-256,hmac-sha2-512,hmac-sha1
debug2: compression ctos: none,zlib@openssh.com
debug2: compression stoc: none,zlib@openssh.com
debug2: languages ctos:
debug2: languages stoc:
debug2: firstkexfollows 0
debug2: reserved 0
debug1: kex: algorithm: curve25519-sha256@libssh.org
debug1: kex: host key algorithm: ecdsa-sha2-nistp256
debug1: kex: server->client cipher: chacha20-poly1305@openssh.com MAC: <implicit> compression: none
debug1: kex: client->server cipher: chacha20-poly1305@openssh.com MAC: <implicit> compression: none
debug3: send packet: type 30
debug1: expecting SSH2MSGKEXECDHREPLY
debug3: receive packet: type 31
debug1: Server host key: ecdsa-sha2-nistp256 SHA256:CEfnZqyzQNOLTJXYcAeA+HnbiAeEKuVxn2iwW395O10
debug3: hostkeysforeach: reading file “/Users/brendan/.ssh/knownhosts”
debug3: recordhostkey: found key type ECDSA in file /Users/brendan/.ssh/knownhosts:4
debug3: loadhostkeys: loaded 1 keys from 45.55.137.106
debug1: Host '45.55.137.106’ is known and matches the ECDSA host key.
debug1: Found key in /Users/brendan/.ssh/knownhosts:4
debug3: send packet: type 21
debug2: setnewkeys: mode 1
debug1: rekey after 134217728 blocks
debug1: SSH2MSGNEWKEYS sent
debug1: expecting SSH2MSGNEWKEYS
debug3: receive packet: type 21
debug1: SSH2MSGNEWKEYS received
debug2: setnewkeys: mode 0
debug1: rekey after 134217728 blocks
debug2: key: /Users/brendan/.ssh/idrsa (0x7f8c226015d0)
debug2: key: /Users/brendan/.ssh/iddsa (0x0)
debug2: key: /Users/brendan/.ssh/idecdsa (0x0)
debug2: key: /Users/brendan/.ssh/ided25519 (0x0)
debug3: send packet: type 5
debug3: receive packet: type 7
debug1: SSH2MSGEXTINFO received
debug1: kexinputextinfo: server-sig-algs=<rsa-sha2-256,rsa-sha2-512>
debug3: receive packet: type 6
debug2: serviceaccept: ssh-userauth
debug1: SSH2MSGSERVICEACCEPT received
debug3: send packet: type 50
debug3: receive packet: type 51
debug1: Authentications that can continue: publickey
debug3: start over, passed a different list publickey
debug3: preferred publickey,keyboard-interactive,password
debug3: authmethodlookup publickey
debug3: remaining preferred: keyboard-interactive,password
debug3: authmethodisenabled publickey
debug1: Next authentication method: publickey
debug1: Offering public key: RSA SHA256:ho8g2Zv19llDRt8FMoR96YyncSO521zKT7bEvaNlP4k /Users/brendan/.ssh/idrsa
debug3: sendpubkeytest
debug3: send packet: type 50
debug2: we sent a publickey packet, wait for reply
debug3: receive packet: type 51
debug1: Authentications that can continue: publickey
debug1: Trying private key: /Users/brendan/.ssh/iddsa
debug3: no such identity: /Users/brendan/.ssh/iddsa: No such file or directory
debug1: Trying private key: /Users/brendan/.ssh/idecdsa
debug3: no such identity: /Users/brendan/.ssh/idecdsa: No such file or directory
debug1: Trying private key: /Users/brendan/.ssh/ided25519
debug3: no such identity: /Users/brendan/.ssh/ided25519: No such file or directory
debug2: we did not send a packet, disable method
debug1: No more authentication methods to try.
root@45.55.137.106: Permission denied (publickey).

Can someone please help me parse through this error so we can at least get a little closer to a solution?