Cant Connect SSH

Posted on September 19, 2016

Hey, I am trying to coonect my droplet using ssh but it cannot connect. my ssh debug is here:

zombie@zombie-M18xR2:~$ ssh root@104.236.90.29 -v OpenSSH_7.2p2 Ubuntu-4ubuntu2.1, OpenSSL 1.0.2g-fips 1 Mar 2016 debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh/ssh_config debug1: /etc/ssh/ssh_config line 19: Applying options for * debug1: Connecting to 104.236.90.29 [104.236.90.29] port 22. debug1: Connection established. debug1: key_load_public: No such file or directory debug1: identity file /home/zombie/.ssh/id_rsa type -1 debug1: key_load_public: No such file or directory debug1: identity file /home/zombie/.ssh/id_rsa-cert type -1 debug1: key_load_public: No such file or directory debug1: identity file /home/zombie/.ssh/id_dsa type -1 debug1: key_load_public: No such file or directory debug1: identity file /home/zombie/.ssh/id_dsa-cert type -1 debug1: key_load_public: No such file or directory debug1: identity file /home/zombie/.ssh/id_ecdsa type -1 debug1: key_load_public: No such file or directory debug1: identity file /home/zombie/.ssh/id_ecdsa-cert type -1 debug1: key_load_public: No such file or directory debug1: identity file /home/zombie/.ssh/id_ed25519 type -1 debug1: key_load_public: No such file or directory debug1: identity file /home/zombie/.ssh/id_ed25519-cert type -1 debug1: Enabling compatibility mode for protocol 2.0 debug1: Local version string SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_7.2p2 Ubuntu-4ubuntu2.1 ssh_exchange_identification: read: Connection reset by peer

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Ryan Quinn

September 20, 2016

Are you using a password or an ssh key? It would appear from the output you shared that your ssh client wasn’t able to find a private key to use for authentication. What files are in your /home/zombie/.ssh directory?