By pangolino91
I have two computers, one OS Mac and one OS Windows. Using the Mac i managed to add the SSH public key and I can log into the droplet from the local machine terminal. On the one using windows, however, everytime I try to log in it throws the error “permission denied (publickey)”. I tried to follow the tutorials:
- https://www.digitalocean.com/docs/droplets/how-to/add-ssh-keys/create-with-putty/
- https://www.digitalocean.com/docs/droplets/how-to/add-ssh-keys/to-existing-droplet/ Still, I cannot get through it. For example, in the session https://www.digitalocean.com/docs/droplets/how-to/add-ssh-keys/to-existing-droplet/#manually it says to paste the key with nano editor but when I try to paste it, some characters of the key are changed (encrypted?) and I do not want to manually copy and paste the key inside the text editor. Also, I do not have in my local machine this file “cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub”. Is it simply referring to the Putty key saved as private after the creation which I already added to the account (but not to the droplet)? Also, even from the droplet web console when I try to use the “ssh” command it throws the error “permission denied (publickey)” so I cannot really do anything. What am I doing wrong? Where can I find a working tutorial? Thanks in advance for the answers. Enrico.
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I think you managed to generate two keys, first one from you Mac and the second one from your Windows machine.
I would recommend to use the same private key (from your Mac) on both machines.
You can use multiple pub keys for the same user but is more to explain, but the short answer is to use the same PrivateKey from your Mac on Windows too.
Hello,
If the PasswordAuthentication is currently disabled you can try to enable it just temporary in order to access the droplet with the root password and upload your ssh-key. Once this is done you can again disable the PasswordAuthentication in order to keep the droplet secure.
Dropbox in case you don’t have any other server to us.
- Login to the console on the DigitalOcean website.
- Type sudo nano
/etc/ssh/sshd_config - Change PasswordAuthentication from “no” to “yes” and save the file
- Open a terminal on your computer and type ssh username@[hostname or IP address] or if on a Windows box use PuTTY for password login making sure authentication parameters aren’t pointing to a private key
- Login with password
- Type sudo nano
~/.ssh/authorized_keys - Paste public key text here and save the file
- Type sudo nano
/etc/ssh/sshd_config - Change PasswordAuthentication from “yes” to “no” and save the file
- Log out and attempt to log back in (if using PuTTY make sure you set up auth parameters to point to your private key)
Hope that this helps! Regards, Alex
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