Question
Cannot ssh between 2 droplets nor to localhost
I have public keys setup for droplet creation and i am able to remote into both droplets from my computer using the key pair but if I try to ssh from Droplet 1 to Droplet 2 it fails with the following info:
Apr 23 15:03:21 18 sshd[18270]: Connection closed by authenticating user root 127.0.0.1 port 38042 [preauth]
Permission denied (publickey).
This happens on both droplets and even when connecting to localhost on the same Droplet.
UFW is disabled and sshd_config is set to the default that DO sets it to when it creates a droplet with a key file.
I have dug through everything i can find but i cannot get past this error.
Both droplets are using ubuntu 18.04
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